A Short Guide to Flavour Physics and CP Violation

TL;DR

This paper provides an accessible overview of flavor physics and CP violation, covering fundamental concepts, theoretical tools like OPE, and recent developments relevant to LHC experiments, aimed at graduate students.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive, pedagogical introduction to flavor physics and CP violation, integrating theoretical methods and recent experimental insights for early-career researchers.

Findings

Introduction of key concepts in flavor physics and CP violation

Explanation of theoretical tools like OPE and effective field theories

Discussion of flavor physics topics relevant to LHC era

Abstract

We present the invited lectures given at the second Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics (AEPSHEP), which took place in Puri, India in November 2014. The series of lectures aimed at graduate students in particle experiment/theory, covering the very basics of flavor physics and CP violation, some useful theoretical methods such as OPE and effective field theories, and some selected topics of flavour physics in the era of LHC.