Thursday, November 23, 2017, 16:00
WHGA Auditorium
Chris Sachrajda, University of Southampton
Abstract:
I will review the study of precision flavour physics, the study of
flavour changing weak decays, as an important framework for exploring
the limits of the Standard Model of particle physics and in searches for
physics beyond the standard model. For most processes this requires the
control of strong interaction effects and these cannot be evaluated
using the standard technique of perturbation theory. In recent years,
the use of the lattice formulation of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and
large scale numerical simulations have enabled these hadronic effects to
be determined to a precision approaching 1% and I will give an
introduction to this technique. I will also mention some recent
experimental anomalies.