https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0713-4
Review
Collider aspects of flavor physics at high Q
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Departamento de Física Teórica y del Cosmos and CAFPE, Universidad de Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain
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DAMTP, CMS, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0WA, UK
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Centre for Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3), Université Catholique de Louvain, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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Institute for Nuclear Research RAS, Moscow, 117312, Russia
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AHEP Group, Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC, Universitat de Valencia), 46071, València, Spain
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Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Wien, 1090, Vienna, Austria
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Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Salento, 73100, Lecce, Italy
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INFN, Sezione di Lecce, Lecce, Italy
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Grup de Física Teòrica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Barcelona, Spain
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Institut de Física d’Altes Energies, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Barcelona, Spain
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INFN and Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Karlsruhe, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, 05508-900, Brazil
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LIP, Departamento de Física, Universidade de Coimbra, 3004-516, Coimbra, Portugal
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Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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Departamento de Física e Química, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Guaratinguetá, SP, Brazil
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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University of Oxford, Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3RH, UK
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Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Université de Paris-Sud, 91405, Orsay, France
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Physics Department, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografou, 157 84, Athens, Greece
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Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-003, Lisbon, Portugal
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LPSC, Université Grenoble I/CNRS-IN2P3, 38026, Grenoble, France
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Theory Group, IPNS, KEK, Tsukuba, 305-0801, Japan
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Institute of Theoretical Physics, Warsaw University, 00681, Warsaw, Poland
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Departament de Física Fonamental, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 80805, Munich, Germany
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Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria IFCA (CSIC-UC), 39005, Santander, Spain
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National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Ravala 10, Tallinn, 10143, Estonia
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Department of Physics, Tokyo Gakugei University, Koganei, Tokyo, 184-8501, Japan
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Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan
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Theory Division, Physics Department, CERN, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
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SLAC, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94309, USA
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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, 22603, Hamburg, Germany
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Institute of Nuclear Physics, NCSR “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece
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INR, Moscow, Russia
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IPPP Durham, Department of Physics, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
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Universitá degli Studi di Milano and INFN, 20133, Milano, Italy
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Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Università di Trieste, Miramare, Trieste, Italy
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INFN, Sezione di Trieste, 34014, Trieste, Italy
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Faculdade de Engenharia, Centro Universitário Fundação Santo André, Santo André, SP, Brazil
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Institut für Hochenergiephysik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1050, Wien, Austria
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Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
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Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan
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ETH Zurich, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland
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Physics and Astronomy Department, University College London, London, UK
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Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009, Zaragoza, Spain
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Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Università di Torino and INFN, Sezione di Torino, Italy
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INFN, Sezione di Pavia, 27100, Pavia, Italy
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Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Universität Würzburg, 97074, Würzburg, Germany
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SINP MSU, Moscow, Russia
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Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Astroparticules, UMR 5207, Université Montpellier II, 34095, Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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Instituto de Física, Universidad de Antioquia, Antioquia, Colombia
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Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany
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Physics Department, CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
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Service de Physique Théorique, CEA Saclay, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Theoretical Physics, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, 60510, USA
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LAPTH, CNRS, UMR 5108, Chemin de Bellevue BP110, 74941, Annecy-le-Vieuy, France
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HEP Group, Dept. Estructura i Constituents de la Matèria, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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Physics Department, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey
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Diparimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Universita di Catania, 95123, Catania, Italy
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Physics and Astronomy Department, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, USA
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Physics Department, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
* e-mail: porod@physik.uni-wurzburg.de
Received:
19
February
2008
Revised:
9
August
2008
Published online:
12
November
2008
This chapter of the “Flavor in the era of LHC” workshop report discusses flavor-related issues in the production and decays of heavy states at the LHC at high momentum transfer Q, both from the experimental and the theoretical perspective. We review top quark physics, and discuss the flavor aspects of several extensions of the standard model, such as supersymmetry, little Higgs models or models with extra dimensions. This includes discovery aspects, as well as the measurement of several properties of these heavy states. We also present publicly available computational tools related to this topic.
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