Selected Topics in Flavor Physics

PD Dr. Stephan Dürr, Winter 2018/19

Content Summary

• Reminder on Standard Model interactions
• Hypercharge assignments in the Standard Model
• Free-particle Solutions in Weyl and Pauli-Dirac representations
• Spinor projection operators and completeness relations
• S-matrix and Feynman rules for QED
• Electroweak gauge interactions
• Strong gauge interactions
• Charged-current and neutral-current interactions
• Universality, V-A and parity violation
• Higgs mechanism for non-abelian gauge group
• Fermion masses and CKM mixing matrix
• Box diagrams and GIM mechanism
• Neutral meson oscillations and CP-violation
• Constraints on the unitarity triangles
• Neutrino masses and PMNS mixing matrix
• Atmospheric and solar neutrinos, MSW effect
• Normal versus inverted mass hierarchy
• Hints for flavor non-universality
• Possible BSM scenarios

Suggested Books

• D. Griffith: "Introduction to Elementary Particles", Wiley (2008).
• C.G.Tully: "Elementary Particle Physics in a Nutshell", Princeton University Press (2011).
• M. Thomson: "Modern Particle Physics", Cambridge University Press (2013).
• J.F. Donoghue, E. Golowich and B.R. Holstein: "Dynamics of the Standard Model", Cambridge University Press (2014).
• M.D. Schwartz: "Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model", Cambridge University Press (2014).
• G. Barr, R. Devenish, R. Walczak and T. Weidberg: "Particle Physics in the LHC era", Oxford University Press (2016).

Suggested Articles

• C.T. Sachrajda: "Lattice flavordynamics", hep-lat/0601014 .
• L. Lellouch: "Flavor physics and lattice quantum chromodynamics", arXiv:1104.5484 .
• F. Bernardoni et al: "B-physics from HQET in two-flavour lattice QCD", arXiv:1210.7932 .
• S. Aoki et al: "Review of lattice results concerning low-energy particle physics", arXiv:1607.00299.
• T. Kaneko: "Lattice QCD: Flavor Physics and Spectroscopy", arXiv:1807.04134.

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