Flavor Physics in the Coming Era
COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited
Abstract
Decades of intense experimental and theoretical effort in flavor physics has established a foundation from which incisive probes of physics beyond the Standard Model can be performed. Our most compelling theories of ``Terascale'' (TeV energy scale) physics typically predict new contributions to flavor-violating processes involving quarks. New particles predicted by Terascale physics are expected to have flavor-violating and CP-violating couplings. The rich program of experiments at B factories and elsewhere have unexpectedly found no clear signals of such contributions, which in turn tightly constrains the space for new physics. The ``Minimal Flavor Violating'' world we find ourselves in motivates a new program of precision experiments that can build on the strong theoretical foundation that exists today in flavor physics. This lecture will review where precision flavor experiments at the ``Intensity Frontier'' are at today and what the prospects are for advancing probes of new physics through precision experiments at next-generation Intensity Frontier facilities.
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Authors
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Robert Tschirhart
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory