This is the first book to discuss the search for new physics in charged leptons, neutrons, and quarks in one coherent volume. The area of indirect searches for new physics is highly topical; though no new physics particles have yet been observed directly at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the methods described in this book will provide researchers with the necessary tools to keep searching for new physics.
It describes the lines of research that attempt to identify quantum effects of new physics particles in low-energy experiments, in addition to detailing the mathematical basis and theoretical and phenomenological methods involved in the searches, whilst making a clear distinction between model-dependent and model-independent methods employed to make predictions.
This book will be a valuable guide for graduate students and early-career researchers in particle and high energy physics who wish to learn about the techniques used in modern predictions of new physics effects at low energies, whilst also serving as a reference for researchers at other levels.
Key features:
• Takes an accessible, pedagogical approach suitable for graduate students and those seeking an overview of this new and fast-growing field
• Illustrates common theoretical trends seen in different subfields of particle physics
• Valuable both for researchers in the phenomenology of elementary particles and for experimentalists
Author(s): Alexey A. Petrov
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 218
City: Boca Raton
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
1.1. Momentum scales and effective field theories
1.2. Low energy experiments and New Physics
1.3. Logic and organization of the book
2. New Physics: light and heavy
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Continuous symmetries and new interactions
2.3. Discrete symmetries: C, P, and T
2.4. Flavor and CP-violation in the Standard Model
2.5. Heavy New Physics and model building
2.6. Heavy New Physics without model building
2.7. Light New Physics
2.8. Non-trivial extensions of the Standard Model. Lorentz violation
2.9. Notes for further reading
3. New Physics searches with charged leptons
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Flavor-conserving observables: (g − 2) and lepton EDMs
3.3. Charged lepton
avor violation: background-free searches for New Physics
3.4. Notes for further reading
4. New Physics searches with quarks
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Flavor-conserving interactions: EDM
4.3. Flavor-conserving interactions: decays
4.4. SM EFT and quark sector
4.5. Hadronic form-factors: from models to EFTs
4.6. Decays of heavy
avors into leptons
4.7. CP-violation and CP-violating observables
4.8. Non-leptonic decays: QCD challenges
4.9. Meson-antimeson oscillations
4.10. Kaon decays
4.11. Flavor problem and minimal
avor violation
4.12. Baryon number violating processes
4.13. Notes for further reading
5. New Physics searches with neutrinos
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Neutrino masses and oscillations
5.3. Neutrinos and leptonic CP violation
5.4. Electromagnetic properties of neutrinos
5.5. Standard neutrino interactions
5.6. Non-standard neutrino interactions
5.7. Notes for further reading
6. New Physics searches with Higgs and gauge bosons
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Precision electroweak physics. S, T, and U parameters
6.3. Z-boson decays
6.4. Higgs boson decays
6.5. Collider searches for Dark Matter
6.6. Notes for further reading
7. Conclusions
A. Useful mathematics
A.1. Dimensional regularization: useful formulas
A.2. Phase space calculations
A.3. Cut diagrams. Cutkosky rules
A.4. Fierz relations
References
Index
