Theory seminar: Perspectives of flavour physics beyond the SM in the era of the LHC

Liliana Velasco-Sevilla, Universität Hamburg

The Standard Model (SM) has successfully described most part of the interactions of elementary particles, however it has many free parameters, most of them related to the masses and the mixing of its fermions. The Higgs mechanism explains the existence the SM fermion masses, but it does not explain the mass spectrum, the mixing pattern and the number of generations of matter. These three last issues are collectively known as the flavour problem and the Charge-Parity (CP) violation is known as the CP problem.

Flavour and CP observables constrain severely extensions of the SM. However, this is a chance to test mechanisms that could solve flavour and CP issues and which may be only realizable in supersymmetry or other extensions of the SM. Then, I will review recent flavour and CP observations. In the third part, I will talk about the possibilities to solve these problems in supersymmetry. Finally, I will mention perspectives to identify signatures of the supersymmetric flavour violating parameters from experiments at the LHC.