Flavor physics and the TeV scale / George W.S. Hou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hou, George W. S. (George Wei-Shu), 1958- author.

Series:

Springer tracts in modern physics ; 233.

Springer tracts in modern physics, 0081-3869 ; volume 233

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Particles (Nuclear physics)--Flavor.

Particles (Nuclear physics).

Quantum flavor dynamics.

B mesons.

CP violation (Nuclear physics).

Physical Description:

xv, 210 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Springer, [2019]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3662586274

9783662586273

OCLC:

1076550688