PRISMA+ Colloquium

April 30, 2014 at 1 p.m. in Minkowski-Raum 05-119, Staudingerweg 7

Prof. Dr. Tobias Hurth
Institut für Physik, THEP
hurth@uni-mainz.de

Heavy Flavour Physics at the LHC
Dr. Jonas Rademacker (University of Bristol)


The vast number of charm and bottom hadrons produced at the LHC provides a unique opportunity for high precision flavour physics. The unprecedented precision possible at the LHC, especially at the dedicated flavour physics experiment, LHCb, results in a new level sensitivity to physics beyond the Standard Model. This approach probes mass scales far exceeding the LHC collision energy, and provides informa- tion that is complementary to the New Physics searches at ATLAS and CMS. We will report on recent results from LHCb, as well as flavour physics results from ATLAS and CMS, and briefly discuss the future prospects of flavour physics at the LHC and the LHCb upgrade.