Patterns of flavour violation at the dawn of the LHC era

TL;DR

This paper discusses how the LHC enables testing of flavour violation patterns predicted by the Standard Model and various New Physics models, through both direct searches and precision measurements.

Contribution

It reviews the potential of the LHC to explore flavour violation patterns and assess the validity of Minimal Flavour Violation frameworks.

Findings

LHC can test flavour violation models directly and indirectly.

Precision measurements constrain New Physics flavour structures.

The Standard Model's flavour predictions are strongly supported by existing data.

Abstract

The experimental success of the predictions of the Standard Model in the flavour sector suggests that New Physics should possess a highly non-generic flavour structure. Different approaches to this idea of Minimal Flavour Violation have been proposed and studied during the last years. At last, the LHC provides the possibility to test these patterns from different points of view, i.e. through the direct search of New Physics at the high energy frontier, and through the indirect constraints at the intensity frontier of precision measurements.