The role of Lattice QCD in flavor physics

TL;DR

Lattice QCD significantly advances flavor physics by aiding in the precise determination of the CKM matrix and exploring CP violation within the Standard Model, thus supporting ongoing experimental and theoretical efforts.

Contribution

This paper reviews recent lattice QCD contributions to flavor physics, emphasizing CKM matrix determination and CP violation studies, highlighting their importance in current particle physics research.

Findings

Lattice QCD provides precise calculations for CKM matrix elements.

Lattice results contribute to understanding CP violation in the Standard Model.

Progress in lattice computations enhances the accuracy of flavor physics predictions.

Abstract

Understanding flavor physics is one of the most important tasks of particle physics today, which is motivating an extraordinary experimental and theoretical investigational effort. Important progress in this field has already been achieved in the last few years, with Lattice QCD calculations playing an essential role in this effort. I will describe some lattice contributions to the studies of flavor physics by focusing particularly on the determination of the CKM matrix and on the study of CP violation in the Standard Model.