2016/11/24 by Luiz Henrique Vale Silva, Silva, Luiz Vale
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Superconducting Materials and Applications
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1611.08187
openalex publication_date 2016/11/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A natural avenue to extend the Standard Model (SM) is to embed it into a more symmetric framework. Here, I focus in Left-Right (LR) Models, which treat left- and right-handed chiralities on equal footing. Important information about the structure of LR Models comes from meson-mixing observables. Due to the impact of the new contributions to these processes, I consider the calculation of the short-distance QCD effects correcting the LR Model contributions to meson-mixing observables at the Next-to-Leading Order. I then revisit the phenomenology of a simple realization of LR Models, containing doublet scalars, and combine in a global fit electroweak precision observables, direct searches of the new gauge bosons and meson oscillation observables, a task performed within the CKMfitter statistical framework. Finally, I also cover a different issue, namely the modeling of theoretical uncertainties, a class of uncertainties specially important for flavour physics. Different frequentist schemes are compared, and their differences are illustrated with flavour-oriented examples.