Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the Durham University, Durham, UK
- Comprehensive introduction to flavour physics and B meson mixing, ideal for a new student
- Detailed examples of the HQE and other tools required for precision calculations
- Contains the only state of the art calculation of non-perturbative parameters for calculation of B and D meson lifetimes
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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About this book
This PhD thesis is dedicated to a subfield of elementary particle physics called “Flavour Physics”. The Standard Model of Particle Physics (SM) has been confirmed by thousands of experimental measurements with a high precision. But the SM leaves important questions open, like what is the nature of dark matter or what is the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe.
By comparing high precision Standard Model calculations with extremely precise measurements, one can find the first glimpses of the physics beyond the SM – currently we see the first hints of a potential breakdown of the SM in flavour observables. This can then be compared with purely theoretical considerations about new physics models, known as model building.
Both precision calculations and model building are extremely specialised fields and this outstanding thesis contributes significantly to both topics within the field of Flavour Physics and sheds new light on the observed anomalies.
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Book Title: Charming New Physics in Beautiful Processes?
Authors: Matthew John Kirk
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19197-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19196-2Published: 29 May 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19199-3Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19197-9Published: 17 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 225
Number of Illustrations: 569 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour
Topics: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics