Physics opportunities of super flavour factories
Prof. Diego Bettoni (INFN Ferrara)

Elementary particle physics in the next decade will be focused on the investigation of the origin of electroweak symmetry breaking and the search for extensions of the Standard Model at the TeV scale. The two asymmetric B factories, PEP-II and KEKB, have produced a wealth of flavour physics results, successfully testing the quark and lepton sectors of the Standard Model. The much larger data sample which will be available at a Super Flavour Factory will provide a uniquely important source of information about the details of the New Physics uncovered at hadron colliders in the coming decade. The capabilitities of Super Flavour Factories include the measurement of CP-violating asymmetries in very rare b and c quark decays, the study of braching fractions of heavy quark and heavy lepton decays in processes which are either extremely rare or forbidden in the Standard Model, the detailed investigantion of complex kinematic distributions. These studies will provide unique and important constraints on the type of New Physics behind the new phenomena that many expect to be manifest at the LHC. In this seminar I will present an overview of the physics of Super Flavour Factories and of the two facilities currently being planned in Italy and Japan.