Speaker
Dr
Christopher Kolda
(U of Notre Dame)
Description
In many models of physics beyond the Standard Model, it is necessary to suppress new, large sources of flavor-changing neutral currents. One recipe is to demand that the new physics exhibits “minimal flavor violation.” Though this is really a constraint on the quark sector of the theory, it can have strong effects on possible sources of lepton number violation. In particular, it strongly constrains operators that lead to neutrinoless double beta decay, and the interpretations of any positive signal among the next generation of searches.
Author
Dr
Christopher Kolda
(U of Notre Dame)
