Flavor in the Era of the LHC

a R. Fleischer, T. Hurth, M. L. Mangano Physics Department, CERN, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland In the history of quantum and particle physics, discrete system. In this past decade, the key player has been the B-meson system, and we also witnessed the appearance on symmetries and their violation have played an outstanding + ? rôle. First, the assumption of the conservation of P (parity), stage of the top quark. Thanks to thee e B factories with C (charge conjugation), CP and CPT (T denotes time rever- their detectors BaBar (SLAC) and Belle (KEK), CP vio- tion is now also rmly seen in B-meson decays, where the sal) helped theorists to restrict theoretical predictions, such 0 golden decay B ?J/?K shows CP-violating effects as in Fermi's 1934 seminal paper on weak interactions. In S d at the level of 70%. These effects can be translated into the 1957, the observation of P (and C) violation in weak int- angle? of the unitarity triangle (UT), which characterizes actions gave a new impact and led to the conjecture that CP the KobayashiMaskawa mechanism of CP violation. S- was still a conserved symmetry. In 1963, one year before + ? eral strategies to determine the other angles of the triangle, the surprising observation of CP violation in K ?? ? L ? and ?, have been proposed and successfully applied to decays, the concept of quark- avour mixing was introduced theB-factory data.

Summarizes and documents the outcome of the year long work by the CERN working groups studying the role of flavor physics in the era of the LHC

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Prof. Dr. Robert Fleischer
geboren 1941 in Wien; 1958 bis 1963 Studium der Klassischen Archäologie und Alten Geschichte an der Universität Wien; 1963 bis 1977 Assistent am Österreichischen Archäologischen Institut; 1964/65 österreichisches Bundesheer; 1973 Habilitation Universität Wien; 1977 bis 2006 Prof. Universität Mainz; 1989 Visiting Prof. Bryn Mawr College, USA.
Ausgrabungen und Feldforschungen in Österreich, Deutschland, Griechenland, Türkei, Jemen.
Klassische und Provinzialrömische Archäologie, speziell antike Bronzen, anatolische Kultstatuen, klassische Sarkophage, hellenistische Herrscherporträts, Felsgräber in Anatolien.

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The three reviews collected in this volume summarize and document the outcome of the year long work by the CERN working groups studying the role of flavor physics in the era of the LHC. They confirm that flavor physics is an essential element in the future of high-energy physics. Should new-physics particles be produced at the LHC, studies of flavor physics will play a key role, helping to find the underlying new-physics scenario, to study the properties of new-physics particles and to detect or to exclude new sources of CP violation and flavor structures.

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Flavor physics of leptons and dipole moments.- Collider aspects of flavor physics at high Q.- B, D and K decays.