2011/04/28 by Laurent Lellouch, Lellouch, Laurent
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1104.5484
openalex publication_date 2011/04/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The course begins with an introduction to the Standard Model, viewed as an effective field theory. Experimental and theoretical limits on the energy scales at which New Physics can appear, as well as current constraints on quark flavor parameters, are reviewed. The role of lattice QCD in obtaining these constraints is described. A second section is devoted to explaining the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa mechanism for quark flavor mixing and CP violation, and to detailing its most salient features. The third section is dedicated to the study of K -> pi pi decays. It comprises discussions of indirect CP violation through K0- K0 mixing, of the ΔI=1/2 rule and of direct CP violation. It presents some of the lattice QCD tools required to describe these phenomena ab initio.