Flavour Physics: precision tests and anomalies
Johannes Albrecht (TU Dortmund)

Precision measurements of decays of heavy mesons offer a unique lab to test the Standard Model of particle physics. Heavy, virtual particles in loop processes lead to quantum corrections that are measurable in the precision tests of flavour physics. Using this strategy, hints for postulated new particles can be found. The energy range tested here extends the range reachable in direct searches by about one order of magnitude. Historically, many discoveries in particle physics have first been seen in precision measurements.
The talk will give a status of the current measurements in flavour physics with a focus on the recent measurements of the LHCb collaboration. Recently observed tensions between LHCb data and the Standard Model prediction will be discussed and perspectives to clarify these in the near future are given.