Quark flavour physics: status and future prospects

TL;DR

Quark flavour physics investigates hadron properties and decays to test the Standard Model's completeness, with recent developments and future experiments probing energy scales beyond the Standard Model.

Contribution

Provides an overview of recent progress and future prospects in quark flavour physics, emphasizing its role in testing the Standard Model and exploring new physics.

Findings

Recent experimental results support Standard Model predictions.

Future experiments aim to probe higher energy scales for new physics.

Quark flavour studies remain crucial for understanding fundamental physics.

Abstract

Quark flavour physics is the study of hadrons, their properties, and their decays into other particles. As a discipline it simultaneously catalogues the nature of physical states within the Standard Model of particle physics, and in doing so tests the consistency and completeness of the Standard Model's description of reality. Following the discovery of the Higgs field, it is more essential than ever to critically examine the Standard Model's own coherence. Precision studies of quark flavour are one of the most sensitive experimental instruments for this task. I give a brief and necessarily selective overview of recent developments in quark flavour physics and discuss prospects for the next generation of experiments and facilities, with an emphasis on the energy scales of beyond Standard Model physics probed by these types of measurements.