Name: Nikhef Colloquium: "Hints for flavorful new physics" (Wolfgang Altmannshofer)
Start: 2015-06-26T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2015-06-26T12:00:00+02:00
Location: Nikhef

Nikhef Colloquium: "Hints for flavorful new physics" (Wolfgang Altmannshofer)

Friday, 26 June 2015 - 11:00

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Friday, 26 June 2015
11:00 Hints for flavorful new physics - Wolfgang Altmannshofer (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Hints for flavorful new physics
- Wolfgang Altmannshofer (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
11:00 - 11:50
Room: H331 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 the status of our understanding of flavor and discuss recent hints in flavor observables for new phenomena beyond the Standard Model of particle physics.