Gino Isidori
Department of Physics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Date
21 November 2018
Host
Ben Kilminster
Title
Old and Recent Puzzles in Flavour Physics
Abstract
Explaining the observed hierarchies among elementary particle masses represent one of the most interesting open problems in particle physics. After a brief introduction to this problem, and to the field of flavour physics, I will focus the attention to a series of recent results in B-meson decays which seem to indicate a coherent pattern of deviations from the Standard Model predictions. I review these hints, addressing theoretical uncertainties and possible New Physics interpretations. Possible connections with direct searches of physics beyond the Standard Model at the high-energy frontier will also be briefly addressed.
