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PIRSA:15050008

Flavorful New Physics

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Altmannshofer, W. (2015). Flavorful New Physics. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/15050008

Wolfgang Altmannshofer University of California, Santa Cruz

Talk numberPIRSA:15050008
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Abstract

The known basic building blocks of matter, the quarks and leptons, come in three generations or flavors.
The masses and interactions of the different flavors show a very hierarchical structure and the origin of these hierarchies remains an unsolved mystery of particle physics. The same hierarchies lead to a very high sensitivity of flavor changing processes to new undiscovered particles even outside the reach of direct searches at particle colliders.
In this colloquium I will present recent developments in constructing a theory of flavor and highlight the complementarity of flavor, Higgs, and collider physics in searching for new phenomena at the TeV scale and beyond.