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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337879103321

Autore

Hou George W. S

Titolo

Flavor Physics and the TeV Scale / / by George W. S. Hou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-662-58629-0

Edizione

[2nd ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 210 p. 70 illus., 55 illus. in color.)

Collana

Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, , 0081-3869 ; ; 233

Disciplina

539.725

Soggetti

Particles (Nuclear physics)

Quantum field theory

Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- CP Violation in Charmless b  sqq Transitions -- Bs Mixing and sin2ΦBs -- H+ Probes: b  sγ, and B  τν, D(*)τν -- Electroweak Penguin: b  sℓℓ, Anomalies, Z′ -- Scalar Interactions and Right-handed Currents -- Probes of the Dark Sector at Flavor Facilities -- D and K Systems: Box and EWP Redux -- Lepton Number Violating and μ, τ Systems -- The Top and the Higgs -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: A CP Violation Primer -- Appendix B: Requiem to 4th Generation -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The second edition of this monograph discusses the usefulness of heavy flavor as a probe of TeV-scale physics, exploring a number of recently-uncovered “flavor anomalies” that are suggestive of possible TeV-scale phenomena. The large human endeavor at the Large Hadron Collider has not turned up any New Physics, except the last particle of the Standard Model, the Higgs boson. Revised and updated throughout, this book puts the first results from the LHC into perspective and provides an outlook for a new era of flavor physics. The author readdresses many questions raised in the first edition and poses new ones. As before, the experimental perspective is taken, with a focus on processes, rather than theories or models, as a basis for exploration, and two-thirds of the book is concerned with b -^ s or bs sb transitions. In the face of the advent of Belle II and other flavor



experiments, this book becomes a part of a dialogue between the energy/collider and intensity/flavor frontiers that will continue over the coming decade. Researchers with an interest in modern particle physics will find this book particularly valuable.