Flavour Physics and CP Violation in the Standard Model and Beyond

TL;DR

This paper provides an accessible overview of flavour physics and CP violation within the Standard Model and its extensions, highlighting fundamental concepts and recent theoretical developments for students with diverse backgrounds.

Contribution

It offers a simplified, broad-interest review of flavour physics and CP violation, including extensions of the Standard Model with novel flavour phenomena.

Findings

Review of fermion mass generation and mixing

Discussion of CP violation mechanisms

Description of extensions with new flavour effects

Abstract

We present the invited lectures given at the Third IDPASC School which took place in Santiago de Compostela in January 2013. The students attending the school had very different backgrounds, some of them were doing their Ph.D. in experimental particle physics, others in theory. As a result, and in order to make the lectures useful for most of the students, we focused on basic topics of broad interest, avoiding the more technical aspects of Flavour Physics and CP Violation. We make a brief review of the Standard Model, paying special attention to the generation of fermion masses and mixing, as well as to CP violation. We describe some of the simplest extensions of the SM, emphasising novel flavour aspects which arise in their framework.