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    Non-minimally flavour violating dark matter

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    Flavour symmetries provide an appealing mechanism to stabilize the dark matter particle. I present a simple model of quark flavoured dark matter that goes beyond the framework of minimal flavour violation. I discuss the phenomenological implications for direct and indirect dark matter detection experiments, high energy collider searches as well as flavour violating precision data.Comment: Proceedings for DISCRETE 2014: Fourth Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries, 2-6 December 2014, King's College Londo

    Introduction to Flavour Physics and CP Violation

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    These lecture notes provide an introduction to the theoretical concepts of flavour physics and CP violation, based on a series of lectures given at the ESHEP 2016 summer school. In the first lecture we review the basics of flavour and CP violation in the Standard Model. The second lecture is dedicated to the phenomenology of K and B meson decays, where we focus on a few representative observables. In the third lecture we give an introduction to flavour physics beyond the Standard Model, both within the framework of Minimal Flavour Violation and beyond.Comment: 30 pages, 10 figures. v2: Few references added. Lectures given at the ESHEP 2016 summer school in Skeikampen, Norway, 15-28 June 2016. To be published as CERN Yellow Repor

    Quo vadis flavour physics? - FPCP2017 theory summary and outlook

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    We review the recent highlights of theoretical flavour physics, based on the theory summary talk given at FPCP2017. Over the past years, a number of intriguing anomalies have emerged in flavour violating KK and BB meson decays, constituting some of the most promising hints for the presence of physics beyond the Standard Model. We discuss the theory status of these anomalies and outline possible future directions to test the underlying New Physics.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures. Proceedings for FPCP2017, 5-9 June 2017, Prague. v2: references added, final version to appear in Po

    New Physics Signatures in Kaon Decays

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    Kaon physics provides a unique opportunity to identify new flavour and CP violating interactions beyond the Standard Model (SM). In the SM, implied by the hierarchical structure of the CKM matrix and the GIM mechanism, flavour changing neutral current processes are most strongly suppressed in the kaon sector while the suppression is much less effective in the B meson systems. Thus their theoretical cleanness makes rare K decays, in particular the K -> pi nu anti-nu system, extremely well suited to look for deviations from their tiny SM values. Despite the increasingly stringent constraints on new physics from direct search experiments as well as indirect searches in B meson decays, large enhancements of both K^+ -> pi^+ nu anti-nu and K_L -> pi^0 nu anti-nu are still possible, and deviations from the SM could be observed even for a multi-TeV new physics scale. In addition the correlation betweeen the charged and neutral K -> pi nu anti-nu modes provides insight on the new physics operator structure in K^0 - anti-K^0 mixing and its interplay with rare K decays. Useful model-discriminating correlations exist also in the K_L -> pi^0 l^+ l^- system. Finally the K -> l nu decays provide a clean test of lepton universality and place constraints on new physics complementary to the ones obtained from the searches for charged lepton flavour violating decays.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures. Proceedings for KAON13 - 2013 Kaon Physics International Conference at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 29-May 1 201

    Phenomenological aspects of flavoured dark matter

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    Flavour symmetries in the dark sector are a theoretically motivated and phenomenologically appealing concept. The dark matter particle can be stabilised with the help of flavour symmetries, without the need to introduce an additional discrete symmetry by hand. Apart from the usual searches in direct and indirect detection experiments and high energy colliders, flavoured dark matter generally also gives rise to new flavour violating interactions leading to interesting signatures in rare meson decays. This proceedings article reviews a simplified model of flavoured dark matter in which the dark matter coupling to quarks constitutes a new source of flavour violation, so that the model goes beyond Minimal Flavour Violation. Particular emphasis is put on the discussion of its phenomenological implications in flavour, collider and direct detection experiments.Comment: 7 pages, proceedings of The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics, 22-29 July 2015, Vienna, Austri

    Top-Flavoured Dark Matter in Dark Minimal Flavour Violation

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    We study a simplified model of top-flavoured dark matter in the framework of Dark Minimal Flavour Violation. In this setup the coupling of the dark matter flavour triplet to right-handed up-type quarks constitutes the only new source of flavour and CP violation. The parameter space of the model is restricted by LHC searches with missing energy final states, by neutral DD meson mixing data, by the observed dark matter relic abundance, and by the absence of signal in direct detection experiments. We consider all of these constraints in turn, studying their implications for the allowed parameter space. Imposing the mass limits and coupling benchmarks from collider searches, we then conduct a combined analysis of all the other constraints, revealing their non-trivial interplay. Especially interesting is the combination of direct detection and relic abundance constraints, having a severe impact on the structure of the dark matter coupling matrix. We point out that future bounds from upcoming direct detection experiments, such as XENON1T, XENONnT, LUX-ZEPLIN, and DARWIN, will exclude a large part of the parameter space and push the DM mass to higher values.Comment: 34 pages, 23 figures. v2: clarifying comments and few references added, matches published versio

    Emerging ΔMd\Delta M_{d}-Anomaly from Tree-Level Determinations of ∣Vcb∣|V_{cb}| and the Angle γ\gamma

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    We point out that the recently increased value of the angle γ\gamma in the Unitarity Triangle (UT), determined in tree-level decays to be γ=(74.0−5.8+5.0)∘\gamma=(74.0^{+5.0}_{-5.8})^\circ by the LHCb collaboration, combined with the most recent value of ∣Vcb∣|V_{cb}| implies an enhancement of ΔMd\Delta M_{d} over the data in the ballpark of 30%30\%. This is roughly by a factor of two larger than the enhancement of ΔMs\Delta M_{s} that is independent of γ\gamma. This disparity of enhancements is problematic for models with Constrained Minimal Flavour Violation (CMFV) and also for U(2)3U(2)^3 models. In view of the prospects of measuring γ\gamma with the precision of ±1∘\pm 1^\circ by Belle II and LHCb in the coming years, we propose to use the angles γ\gamma and β\beta together with ∣Vcb∣|V_{cb}| and ∣Vus∣|V_{us}| as the fundamental parameters of the CKM matrix until ∣Vub∣|V_{ub}| from tree-level decays will be known precisely. Displaying ΔMs,d\Delta M_{s,d} as functions of γ\gamma clearly demonstrates the tension between the value of γ\gamma from tree-level decays, free from new physics (NP) contributions, and ΔMs,d\Delta M_{s,d} calculated in CMFV and U(2)3U(2)^3 models and thus exhibits the presence of NP contributions to ΔMs,d\Delta M_{s,d} beyond these frameworks. We calculate the values of ∣Vub∣|V_{ub}| and ∣Vtd∣|V_{td}| as functions of γ\gamma and ∣Vcb∣|V_{cb}| and discuss the implications of our results for εK\varepsilon_K and rare KK and BB decays. We also briefly discuss a future strategy in which β\beta, possibly affected by NP, is replaced by ∣Vub∣|V_{ub}|.Comment: 15 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables. v2: Clarifying comments and one figure added, conclusions unchanged. Matches published versio
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