Flavour, Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and Dark Matter: state of the art and future prospects

TL;DR

This paper reviews the current understanding of the Higgs boson, flavor physics, and dark matter, emphasizing their interconnections and discussing future experimental prospects to uncover physics beyond the Standard Model.

Contribution

It synthesizes recent developments in Higgs, flavor, and dark matter research, highlighting their interrelations and outlining future experimental directions.

Findings

Higgs boson completes the Standard Model but suggests new physics.

Experimental clues point towards physics beyond the Standard Model.

Future experiments will probe the connections between Higgs, flavor, and dark matter.

Abstract

With the discovery of the Higgs boson the Standard Model has become a complete and comprehensive theory, which has been verified with unparalleled precision and in principle might be valid at all scales. However, several reasons remain why we firmly believe that there should be physics beyond the Standard Model. Experiments such as the LHC, new $B$ factories, and earth- and space-based astro-particle experiments provide us with unique opportunities to discover a coherent framework for many of the long-standing puzzles of our field. Here we explore several significant interconnections between the physics of the Higgs boson, the physics of flavour, and the experimental clues we have about dark matter.