TY - JOUR
T1 - Top and flavour physics in the LHC era
AU - Buras, Andrzej J.
AU - Perez, Gilad
AU - Schwarz, Thomas A.
AU - Tait, Tim M.P.
N1 - Funding Information:
GP is supported by the GIF, Gruber foundation, IRG, ISF, Minerva and is the Shlomo and Michla Tomarin chair. TMPT is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant PHY-0970171.
PY - 2012/8
Y1 - 2012/8
N2 - We have entered a new era, where experiments are probing the top sector both directly and indirectly with an unprecedented accuracy. In the standard model, the top couplings lead to a severe fine tuning problem as well as dominating the amount of flavour violation. Thus, it is expected that in natural extensions of the standard model (SM) the top sector will include new states and consequently, both flavour conserving as well as flavour violating related observables might show deviation from SM predictions. This special issue aims to cover various aspects of top and flavour physics that are commonly considered as orthogonal. However, since very often flavour physics and top physics phenomena arise from the same fundamental sources, it is worth studying them in conjunction. Thus, this review attempts to study in reasonable depth the state of the art in experimental and theoretical research on top and flavour physics.
AB - We have entered a new era, where experiments are probing the top sector both directly and indirectly with an unprecedented accuracy. In the standard model, the top couplings lead to a severe fine tuning problem as well as dominating the amount of flavour violation. Thus, it is expected that in natural extensions of the standard model (SM) the top sector will include new states and consequently, both flavour conserving as well as flavour violating related observables might show deviation from SM predictions. This special issue aims to cover various aspects of top and flavour physics that are commonly considered as orthogonal. However, since very often flavour physics and top physics phenomena arise from the same fundamental sources, it is worth studying them in conjunction. Thus, this review attempts to study in reasonable depth the state of the art in experimental and theoretical research on top and flavour physics.
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U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2105-z
DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2105-z
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:84866652060
SN - 1434-6044
VL - 72
SP - 1
EP - 2
JO - European Physical Journal C
JF - European Physical Journal C
IS - 8
M1 - 2105
ER -