Implications of Standard-Model flavor violation for new physics searches

TL;DR

This paper explores how light-quark flavor physics impacts the search for new physics beyond the Standard Model, especially in interpreting CP violation in meson decays.

Contribution

It highlights the significance of flavor physics in constraining and understanding potential new physics signals.

Findings

Flavor violation constraints inform new physics models

CP-violating observables are sensitive to flavor physics effects

Light-quark flavor physics has broad implications for beyond Standard Model searches

Abstract

I discuss far-flung ramifications of light-quark flavor physics for searches for physics beyond the Standard Model and consider, particularly, its role in the interpretation of CP-violating observables in meson decays.