Complementarity: Flavor Physics in the LHC Era

TL;DR

This paper discusses the potential of high luminosity flavor factories to explore new physics phenomena, complementing LHC efforts by measuring CP asymmetries, rare decays, and other processes sensitive to new particles and interactions.

Contribution

It proposes a comprehensive flavor physics program at high luminosity factories to probe new physics beyond the LHC's reach, focusing on CP violation and rare processes.

Findings

Sensitivity to new physics phases demonstrated

Charged Higgs mass range comparable to LHC accessible

Potential to detect supersymmetric couplings

Abstract

The LHC physics era is about to commence; here we discuss a complementary physics program that would be realized at a high luminosity flavor factory. A flavor factory experiment can search for new physics in CP asymmetries, inclusive decay processes, rare leptonic processes, absolute branching fractions, and other measurements that are challenging or not feasible at the LHC. Such measurements would provide good sensitivity to new physics phases, the presence of a charged Higgs, and supersymmetric couplings. The charged Higgs mass range probed is similar to that accessible at the LHC.