Introduction to Flavour Physics and CP Violation

TL;DR

This paper provides an overview of flavour physics and CP violation, covering Standard Model basics, meson decay phenomenology, and extensions beyond the Standard Model, aimed at graduate-level understanding.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive introduction to flavour physics and CP violation, including both Standard Model and beyond Standard Model perspectives, suitable for educational purposes.

Findings

Review of flavour and CP violation in the Standard Model

Analysis of K and B meson decay observables

Introduction to flavour physics extensions beyond the Standard Model

Abstract

These lecture notes provide an introduction to the theoretical concepts of flavour physics and CP violation, based on a series of lectures given at the ESHEP 2016 summer school. In the first lecture we review the basics of flavour and CP violation in the Standard Model. The second lecture is dedicated to the phenomenology of K and B meson decays, where we focus on a few representative observables. In the third lecture we give an introduction to flavour physics beyond the Standard Model, both within the framework of Minimal Flavour Violation and beyond.