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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337868903321

Autore

Kirk Matthew John

Titolo

Charming New Physics in Beautiful Processes? / / by Matthew John Kirk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-19197-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 pages)

Collana

Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research, , 2190-5053

Disciplina

539.72167

Soggetti

Elementary particles (Physics)

Quantum field theory

Mathematical physics

Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory

Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Theoretical Tools -- Quark-Hadron Duality -- Charming Dark Matter -- Charming new physics in rare Bs decays and mixing? -- Dimension-six matrix elements from sum rules -- One constraint to kill them all? -- Conclusions -- Appendix.

Sommario/riassunto

This PhD thesis is dedicated to a subfield of elementary particle physics called “Flavour Physics”. The Standard Model of Particle Physics (SM) has been confirmed by thousands of experimental measurements with a high precision. But the SM leaves important questions open, like what is the nature of dark matter or what is the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe. By comparing high precision Standard Model calculations with extremely precise measurements, one can find the first glimpses of the physics beyond the SM – currently we see the first hints of a potential breakdown of the SM in flavour observables. This can then be compared with purely theoretical considerations about new physics models, known as model building. Both precision calculations and model building are extremely specialised fields and this outstanding thesis contributes significantly to both topics within the field of Flavour Physics and sheds new light on the observed



anomalies.