2003/01/20 by Gino Isidori · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Bar (unit) #Flavour #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Mixing (physics) #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum mechanics #Quark #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s00023-003-0909-y
published as Annales Henri Poincare 4 (2003) S97-S109 · 10 pages, 6 figures, contribution to TH 2002 (Paris, July 2002)
arxiv created 2003/01/20 · openalex publication_date 2003/12/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
After a brief introduction to the so-called flavour problem, we discuss the role of rare K decays in probing the mechanism of quark-flavour mixing. Particular attention is devoted to the formulation of the Minimal Flavour Violation hypothesis, as a general and natural solution to the flavour problem, and to the fundamental role of K -> pi nu nu-bar decays in testing this scenario.