Eur. Phys. J. C (2008) 57: 183-307
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0713-4

Review

Collider aspects of flavor physics at high Q

¹ Departamento de Física Teórica y del Cosmos and CAFPE, Universidad de Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain
² DAMTP, CMS, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0WA, UK
³ Centre for Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3), Université Catholique de Louvain, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
⁴ Institute for Nuclear Research RAS, Moscow, 117312, Russia
⁵ AHEP Group, Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC, Universitat de Valencia), 46071, València, Spain
⁶ Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Wien, 1090, Vienna, Austria
⁷ Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Salento, 73100, Lecce, Italy
⁸ INFN, Sezione di Lecce, Lecce, Italy
⁹ Grup de Física Teòrica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Barcelona, Spain
¹⁰ Institut de Física d’Altes Energies, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Barcelona, Spain
¹¹ INFN and Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
¹² Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Karlsruhe, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany
¹³ Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, 05508-900, Brazil
¹⁴ LIP, Departamento de Física, Universidade de Coimbra, 3004-516, Coimbra, Portugal
¹⁵ Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
¹⁶ Departamento de Física e Química, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Guaratinguetá, SP, Brazil
¹⁷ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
¹⁸ University of Oxford, Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3RH, UK
¹⁹ Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Université de Paris-Sud, 91405, Orsay, France
²⁰ Physics Department, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografou, 157 84, Athens, Greece
²¹ Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-003, Lisbon, Portugal
²² LPSC, Université Grenoble I/CNRS-IN2P3, 38026, Grenoble, France
²³ Theory Group, IPNS, KEK, Tsukuba, 305-0801, Japan
²⁴ Institute of Theoretical Physics, Warsaw University, 00681, Warsaw, Poland
²⁵ Departament de Física Fonamental, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
²⁶ Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 80805, Munich, Germany
²⁷ Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria IFCA (CSIC-UC), 39005, Santander, Spain
²⁸ National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Ravala 10, Tallinn, 10143, Estonia
²⁹ Department of Physics, Tokyo Gakugei University, Koganei, Tokyo, 184-8501, Japan
³⁰ Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan
³¹ Theory Division, Physics Department, CERN, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
³² SLAC, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94309, USA
³³ Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, 22603, Hamburg, Germany
³⁴ Institute of Nuclear Physics, NCSR “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece
³⁵ INR, Moscow, Russia
³⁶ IPPP Durham, Department of Physics, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
³⁷ Universitá degli Studi di Milano and INFN, 20133, Milano, Italy
³⁸ Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Università di Trieste, Miramare, Trieste, Italy
³⁹ INFN, Sezione di Trieste, 34014, Trieste, Italy
⁴⁰ Faculdade de Engenharia, Centro Universitário Fundação Santo André, Santo André, SP, Brazil
⁴¹ Institut für Hochenergiephysik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1050, Wien, Austria
⁴² Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
⁴³ Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan
⁴⁴ ETH Zurich, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland
⁴⁵ Physics and Astronomy Department, University College London, London, UK
⁴⁶ Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009, Zaragoza, Spain
⁴⁷ Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Università di Torino and INFN, Sezione di Torino, Italy
⁴⁸ INFN, Sezione di Pavia, 27100, Pavia, Italy
⁴⁹ Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Universität Würzburg, 97074, Würzburg, Germany
⁵⁰ SINP MSU, Moscow, Russia
⁵¹ Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Astroparticules, UMR 5207, Université Montpellier II, 34095, Montpellier Cedex 5, France
⁵² Instituto de Física, Universidad de Antioquia, Antioquia, Colombia
⁵³ Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany
⁵⁴ Physics Department, CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
⁵⁵ Service de Physique Théorique, CEA Saclay, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
⁵⁶ Theoretical Physics, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, 60510, USA
⁵⁷ LAPTH, CNRS, UMR 5108, Chemin de Bellevue BP110, 74941, Annecy-le-Vieuy, France
⁵⁸ HEP Group, Dept. Estructura i Constituents de la Matèria, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
⁵⁹ Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
⁶⁰ Physics Department, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey
⁶¹ Diparimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Universita di Catania, 95123, Catania, Italy
⁶² Physics and Astronomy Department, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, USA
⁶³ 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

Abstract

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.