Flavour Visions

TL;DR

This paper discusses how advancements in experimental resolution, especially through flavour physics, could reveal new particles and phenomena beyond the Standard Model at extremely small scales.

Contribution

It explores the potential role of flavour physics in uncovering new particles and solving fundamental puzzles in particle physics at unprecedented resolution scales.

Findings

Potential to observe new particles at 10^{-21}m scale

Flavour physics as a key tool for future discoveries

Implications for solving Standard Model puzzles

Abstract

This decade will allow to improve the resolution of the short distance scales by at least an order of magnitude, extending the picture of fundamental physics down to scales $5\cdot 10^{-20}$m with the help of the LHC. Further resolution down to scales as short as $10^{-21}$m should be possible with the help of high precision experiments in which flavour violating processes will play a prominent role. Will this increase in resolution allow us to see new particles (new animalcula) similarly to what Antoni van Leeuvenhoek saw by discovering bacteria in 1676? The basic question for particle physics is how these new animalcula will look like and which difficulties of the Standard Model (SM) they will help us to solve and which new puzzles and problems they will bring with them. I will describe what role flavour physics will play in these exciting times provided this new world is animalculated.