The Flavor Changing Neutral Current (FCNC) processes
play a crucial role in particle physics. They enter, for instance,
the mechanisms controlling the CP-violations and quantum-oscillating
phenomena in the neutral K,D, and B meson sectors.
Forbidden at tree-level, but not at one-loop, FCNC processes arise,
in the Standard Model, from pure quantum effects.
Therefore, they are also a very sensitive probe to New Physics.
In these series of lectures, I will provide an introduction to the
theory and phenomenology of FCNC processes
and CP violating phenomena in the Standard Model and beyond.
The last part of these lectures, will be devoted to the analysis of
these processes in the framework of general Supersymmetric
extensions of the Standard Model.
The present course consists of 4+4 lectures of 1.5
hours each, suitable for students with general background
in quantum field theory.