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Flavor physics offers many opportunities to probe the fundamental nature of matter and their interactions. The standard model (SM) of particle physics has a very unique flavor structure which is being tested by precision measurements at flavor experiments. Deviations from the SM predictions can point to new flavor structures and new states which can offer clues to the various flavor puzzles in the standard model. Motivated by recent results and flavor anomalies, we will focus on various processes that can reveal possible extension of the SM with new states such as leptoquarks, diquarks, sterile neutrino and dark sectors.
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Interesting Directions in Flavor Physics
Flavor physics continues to be an interesting avenue to look for beyond the standard model (SM) physics. Recent results from flavor physics, both in the quark and lepton sectors, hint at possible new physics. In this work we focus on some flavor physics results, mainly in b decays, and speculate on possible new physics interpretations of these results. We also present a model that can connect some of the B anomalies to the MiniBooNe anomaly and the muon g − 2 measurement.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2309937
- PAR ID:
- 10521625
- Publisher / Repository:
- Andromeda Publishing and Academic Services
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- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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