Flavoured Conspiracies and Conundrums

February 20, 2015
3:00pm to 4:30pm

Red Room/ IFT Seminar Room

Specialist level
Speaker: 
Javier Virto
Institution: 
Siegen U.
Location&Place: 

Red Room/ IFT Seminar Room

Abstract: 

Tests of the Standard Model with Flavor Physics push the scale of "generic" New Physics to 10^4 or even 10^5 TeV. However, some recent tensions in flavor observables could be pointing to relatively light new physics with a curious flavor structure, even breaking lepton-flavor universality. I will review the status of these tensions and discuss to what extent they seem to conspire constructively in a consistent pattern.