MPP Colloquium

Flavour anomalies: Status and Prospects

by Dr Christoph Langenbruch (RWTH Aachen)

Europe/Berlin
Description

Precision measurements of heavy flavour decays constitute powerful tests of the Standard Model of particle physics.
New heavy particles beyond the Standard Model can significantly affect flavour observables through virtual quantum corrections.
Precision measurements of these observables can reveal potential deviations from Standard Model predictions, and thereby probe energy scales far beyond the beam energies currently available at colliders.
The talk will focus on flavour observables that have shown tensions with Standard Model predictions, the so-called flavour anomalies.
I will discuss the current experimental status of the anomalies, and in particular focus on recent results on lepton universality.