Lectures on Flavor Physics (Lecture Notes in Physics, 629)

✍ Scribed by U.-G. Meißner (editor), Willibald Plessas (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 224
• Edition: 2004
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume contains the edited versions of some selected lectures delivered at the famous "Schladming Winter School", devoted to "Flavor Physics" in the present case. Flavor physics is one of the hot topics in contemporary elementary particle physics, because it relates to fundamental questions like the origin of masses, the size and strength of CP violation and the oscillations between various neutrino species. This volume will be useful for graduate students wishing to get more acquainted with the field as well as for lecturers in search of material for seminars of special lectures and courses in quantum field theory.

✦ Table of Contents

front-matter
Chapter 1
1 Introduction
2 QCD with Two Flavours
2.1 Symmetry of the Lagrangian
2.2 Symmetry of the Ground State
2.3 A Remark on Isospin Symmetry
3 Goldstone Bosons
3.1 The Goldstone Theorem
3.2 The Free Scalar Field
3.3 The Linear Sigma Model
3.4 QCD with Two Flavors
4 E.ective Field Theories
4.1 Linear Sigma Model at Low Energy
4.2 QCD at Low Energy
5 Calculations with Le
5.1 Leading Terms
5.2 Higher Order Trees
5.3 Loops
5.4 Renormalization Made Systematic
6 Pion-Pion Scattering

6.2 Type A,B LECs
7 Roy Equations and Threshold Parameters


7.3 The Coupling 3

8 Outlook
Chapter 2
1 Introduction
2 General Considerations
3 Brief Overview of the Experimental Situation
3.1 Measurements of the Magnetic Moment of the Electron
3.2 Measurements of the Magnetic Moment of the Muon

4 The Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Electron
4.1 The Lowest Order Contribution
4.2 Higher Order Mass Independent Corrections
4.3 Mass Dependent QED Corrections
4.4 Other Contributions to ae

5 The Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon
5.1 QED Contributions to aµ
5.2 Hadronic Contributions to aµ
5.3 Electroweak Contributions to a
5.4 Comparison with Experiment
6 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 3
1 Introduction
1.1 Preface
1.2 CKM Matrix and the Unitarity Triangle
1.3 The Special Role of |Vus|, |Vub| and |Vcb|
1.4 Grand Picture
1.5 Theoretical Framework
2 Particle-Antiparticle Mixing and Various Types of CP Violation
2.1 Preliminaries
2.2 Express Review of K0 - 0 Mixing


2.5 Express Review of B0 0 Mixing
2.6 Basic Formulae for .Md,s
2.7 Classi.cation of CP Violation
3 Standard Analysis of the Unitarity Triangle (UT)
3.1 General Procedure

3.3 Unitarity Triangle 2003

4.1 Preliminaries
4.2 Basic Formulae
4.3 Numerical Results

5.1 Preliminaries
5.2 Classi.cation of Elementary Processes
5.3 Neutral B Decays into CP Eigenstates
5.4 Decays to CP Non-eigenstates
5.5 U–Spin Strategies


6.1 Branching Ratios

6.3 Concluding Remarks
7 Minimal Flavour Violation Models
7.1 Preliminaries
7.2 Universal Unitarity Triangle
7.3 Models with Universal Extra Dimensions
8 Outlook
8.1 Phase 1 (2003-2007)
8.2 Phase 2 (2007-2009)
8.3 Phase 3 (2009-2013)
Chapter 4
1 Introduction
2 Statement of the Factorization Formula
2.1 The Idea of Factorization
2.2 The Factorization Formula
3 Arguments in Favor of Factorization
3.1 Preliminaries and Power Counting
3.2 Non-leptonic Decay Amplitudes
3.3 Remarks on Final-State Interactions
4 Power-Suppressed Contributions
4.1 Interactions with the Spectator Quark
4.2 Annihilation Topologies
4.3 Non-leading Fock States
5 Limitations of the Factorization Approach
5.1 Several Small Parameters
5.2 Power Corrections Enhanced by Small Quark Masses
6 QCD Factorization for Charmless Decays

8 Establishing CP Violation in the Bottom Sector
9 Mixing-Independent Construction of the Unitarity Triangle
10 Outlook
Chapter 5
1 Motivation
2 Neutrino Oscillations
2.1 Neutrino Oscillations in Vacuum
2.2 Matter E.ects
2.3 Adiabatic Neutrino Evolution in Matter
2.4 3-Neutrino Oscillations and the Mixing Matrix
3 Dirac Versus Majorana Neutrinos
3.1 Free Fields
3.2 Majorana Neutrinos and CP

3.4 Absolute Neutrino Masses
3.5 Neutrino Electromagnetic Moments
4 Models for Neutrino Masses and Mixing
4.1 Introduction and Scope
4.2 The Standard Model with Additional Scalar Multiplets
4.3 The Seesaw Mechanism
4.4 Combining the Seesaw Mechanism with Radiative Mass Generation
4.5 A Model for Maximal Atmospheric Neutrino Mixing
5 Conclusions