Constraining Minimal Flavour Violation at the LHC

by Jure Zupan (CERN)

Friday 23 Nov 2007, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

If the LHC experiments discover new particles that couple to the Standard Model fermions, then measurements by ATLAS and CMS can contribute to our understanding of the flavour puzzles. I will illustrate this in a scenario where extra SU(2)-singlet down-type quarks are within the LHC reach. By measuring masses, production cross sections and relative decay rates, minimal flavour violation can in principle be excluded. Conversely, these measurements can probe the way in which MFV applies to the new degrees of freedom.

Slides CERN07_MFV.pdf