Friday, June 22, 2001, 16:00
WHGA Auditorium
Dr. U. Nierste, CERN
Abstract:
Currently the prime effort of elementary particle physics is the
investigation of the flavour sector of the Standard Model.
Flavour-changing neutral current processes of K- and B-mesons are related
to the electroweak energy scale and are therefore sensitive to
short-distance physics. Within the Standard Model they suffer from
several suppression mechanism and provide an ideal laboratory to search
for new physics. In my talk I give an overview on the phenomenology of
flavour physics including CP violation, meson-antimeson mixing and rare
decays. I discuss how current and future measurements are affected by new
physics, with emphasis on an extended Higgs sector and supersymmetry.