Overview of heavy flavor physics research at the LHC.

• introduction to flavor physics: puzzles, CKM, global fits
• production (cross section, polarization), spectroscopy
• suppression by qgp
• lifetime and time evolution
• flavor tagging and neutral meson mixing
• CP violation
• rare decays as probes of New Physics

References:

• Matter antimatter fluctuations, N.Leonardo, LAP (2011)
• CP violation, G.C.Branco, L.Lavoura, J.P.Silva, UOP (1999)