Probing new physics with flavor physics (and probing flavor physics with new physics)

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Probing new physics with flavor physics (and probing flavor physics with new physics)

Yosef Nir

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 14 Aug 2007

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The authors' main claim We emphasize the "new physics flavor puzzle".

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This is a written version of a series of lectures aimed at graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in particle theory/string theory/particle experiment familiar with the basics of the Standard Model. We begin with an overview of flavor physics and its implications for new physics. We emphasize the "new physics flavor puzzle". Then, we give four specific examples of flavor measurements and the lessons that have been (or can be) drawn from them: (i) Charm physics: lessons for supersymmetry from the upper bound on $\Delta m_D$. (ii) Bottom physics: model independent lessons on the KM mechanism and on new physics in neutral B mixing from $S_{\psi K_S}$. (iii) Top physics and beyond: testing minimal flavor violation at the LHC. (iv) Neutrino physics: interpreting the data on neutrino masses and mixing within flavor models.

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This is a written version of a series of lectures aimed at graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in particle theory/string theory/particle experiment familiar with the basics of the Standard Model. We begin with an overview of flavor physics and its implications for new physics. We emphasize the "new physics flavor puzzle". Then, we give four specific examples of flavor measurements and the lessons that have been (or can be) drawn from them: (i) Charm physics: lessons for supersymmetry from the upper bound on $\Delta m_D$. (ii) Bottom physics: model independent lessons on the KM mechanism and on new physics in neutral B mixing from $S_{\psi K_S}$. (iii) Top physics and beyond: testing minimal flavor violation at the LHC. (iv) Neutrino physics: interpreting the data on neutrino masses and mixing within flavor models.

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Flavored Dark Matter in Direct Detection Experiments and at LHC
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Combining leptonic, semileptonic and loop flavour observables in a CKMfitter global fit, the Type II two-Higgs-doublet model does not beat the Standard Model and requires a charged Higgs heavier than 316 GeV at 95% CL.

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With $Λ≡TeV$, the constraints on the $z$ coefficients are [ref] Im(z_sd) ≲ 6×10^-9 ϵ_K z_bd ≲ 6 ×10^-6 Δm_B

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However, it turns out that the combination of $α$ and $β$ inputs in the fit constitutes a determination of the angle $γ$ in which $ΔF=2$ contributions cancel [ref] .

The Two Higgs Doublet of Type II facing flavour physics data · 2HDM inputs and parameters · 0.96

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(Previous studies of the $Δm_K-Δm_D$ constraint on the degeneracy between the squark doublets can be found in Refs. [ref] .)

Combining K-\bar K mixing and D-\bar D mixing to constrain the flavor structure of new physics · Introduction · 0.83
This is a manifestation of the so-called flavor problem [ref] : to assure that tree level flavor changing neutral currents beyond the SM do not conflict with the experimental data, either the relevant couplings should be unnaturally small or the New Physics mass scale should be enormously large.

New Physics Contribution to $B_s \to \mu^+ \mu^-$ within R-Parity Violating Supersymmetric Models · Introduction · 0.81
Such a situation is not expected if there is new physics at the TeV scale with generic flavor structure (for a review, see Ref. [ref] ).

Measuring Flavor Mixing with Minimal Flavor Violation at the LHC · Introduction · 0.94

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