# Perspectives and Outlook from HEP Window on the Universe

## TL;DR

This paper reviews the current state of high energy physics post-LHC Run 2, highlights recent findings, and offers a personal outlook emphasizing the potential of flavor anomalies and extra Yukawa couplings as promising avenues for discovering new physics in the upcoming years.

## Contribution

It provides a summary of recent high energy physics results and presents a personal perspective on future research directions, especially focusing on flavor anomalies and Yukawa couplings as key to new physics.

## Key findings

- Highlights the importance of flavor anomalies as potential signs of new physics.
- Suggests extra Yukawa couplings as the most promising next step for discovery.
- Emphasizes the upcoming LHC Run 3 as a bright period for physics exploration.

## Abstract

This brief review grew out from the HEP Concluding Talk of the {\it 25th Anniversary of the Rencontres du Vietnam}, held August 2018 in Quy Nhon. The first two-thirds gives a Summary and Highlights, or snapshot, of High Energy Physics at the end of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Run 2. It can be view as the combined effort of the program organizers, the invited plenary speakers, and finally filtered into the present mosaic. It certainly should not be viewed as comprehensive. In the second one-third, a more personal Perspective and Outlook is given, including my take on the flavor anomalies, and why the next 3 years, the period of Long Shutdown 2 plus first year (or more) of LHC Run~3, would be {\it Bright} and {\it Flavorful}, with much hope for uncovering {\it New Physics}. We advocate extra Yukawa couplings as {\it the most likely, next, New Physics} to be tested, the effect of which is already written in our Matter Universe.