Introduction to flavour physics

Abstract

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