Flavour physics and CP violation (CERN-2014-001)

TL;DR

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of flavour physics and CP violation, covering theoretical foundations, experimental discoveries, and future research directions within and beyond the Standard Model.

Contribution

It offers a detailed synthesis of the theoretical framework, recent experimental results, and ongoing searches for new physics in flavour and CP violation phenomena.

Findings

Discovery of CP violation at B factories and LHC

Success of the GIM mechanism in suppressing flavour-changing neutral currents

Ongoing searches for physics beyond the Standard Model

Abstract

In these three lectures, I overview the theoretical framework of the flavour physics and CP violation. The first lecture is the introduction to the flavour physics. Namely, I give theoretical basics of the weak interaction. I follow also some historical aspect, discovery of the CP violation, phenomenological studies of charged and neutral currents and the success of the GIM mechanism. In the second lecture, I describe the flavour physics and CP violating phenomena in the Standard Model (SM). I also give the latest experimental observation of the CP Violation at the B factories and the LHC and discuss its interpretation. In the third lecture, I discuss the on-going search of the signals beyond SM in the flavour physics and also the future prospects.