Introduction to flavour physics

We give a brief introduction to flavour physics. The first part covers the flavour structure of the Standard Model, how the Kobayashi-Maskawa mechanism is tested and provides examples of searches for new physics using flavour observables, such as meson mixing and rare decays. In the second part we give a brief overview of the recent flavour anomalies and how the Higgs can act as a new flavour probe.Comment: 32 pages, 22 figures, the write-up is a combination of lectures given at ESHEP 2018, SSI 2018 and the US Belle II summer schools, Fig. 1 corrected, several typographical errors fixe

Constraints on CP-violating Higgs couplings to the third generation

Discovering CP-violating effects in the Higgs sector would constitute an indisputable sign of physics beyond the Standard Model. We derive constraints on the CP-violating Higgs-boson couplings to top and bottom quarks as well as to tau leptons from low-energy bounds on electric dipole moments, resumming large logarithms when necessary. The present and future projections of the sensitivities and comparisons with the LHC constraints are provided. Non-trivial constraints are possible in the future, even if the Higgs boson only couples to the third-generation fermions.Comment: 26 pages, 10 figures; typos corrected, version as published in JHE