FCNC processes and CP violating phenomena

by Emidio Gabrielli (LLN)

Tuesday 6 Nov 2007, 11:00 → 12:30 Europe/Brussels

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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.