UK Flavour 2017

4 Sept 2017, 10:00 → 6 Sept 2017, 17:30 Europe/London

OC 218 (IPPP, Durham)

The aim of this workshop is to bring together UK experts in flavour physics working in experiment, phenomenology and lattice QCD to discuss the status and prospects of the field in light of the recent experimental results.

Participation is by invitation only - please contact: alexander.lenz@durham.ac.uk

Accommodation will be booked automatically when registering.

Tentative Sessions:

1. Spectroscopy
2. Exotics
3. Kaon Physics
4. Charm Physics
5. Rare B-decays
6. Semileptonic B-decays
7. Lifetimes and Mixing
8. Hadronic B-decays
9. BSM and future developements
10. CKMfits/FLAG

Organising Committee:

• Greig Cowan (Edinburgh)
• Tim Gershon (Warwick)
• Sebastian Jaeger (Sussex)
• Andreas Juettner (Southampton)
• Alexander Lenz (Durham)
• Matthew Wingate (Cambridge)

Group photography Alex_Lenz_Group.jpg

Poster UKFlavour2017.pdf

Slides MarsdenBay.pdf

Monday 4 September

10:00 → 10:55 Registration and Coffee

10:55 → 12:30 Session 1 - Kaon 1

Convener: Cristina Lazzeroni

10:55 Welcome

Speaker: Keith Ellis

Slides UK-flavour-2017.pdf

11:00 Rare Kaon decays

Speaker: Martin Gorbahn

Slides UK_Flavour_2017_Gorbahn.pdf

11:30 Search for K to pi+ nu nu at NA62

Speaker: Viacheslav Duk

Slides duk_ukflavor2017.pdf

12:00 Rare Kaon decays on the lattice

Antonin Portelli

Speaker: Antonin Portelli

Slides portelli.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Session 2 - Kaon 2

Convener: Sebastian Jäger

14:00 Isopin effects on the lattice

Speaker: Vera Guelpers

Slides guelpers_flavour17.pdf

14:30 Searches for hidden sector particles and LFC tests at NA62

Speaker: Evgueni Goudzovski

Slides goudzovski_040917.pdf

15:00 Rare strange decays at LHCb

Speaker: Francesco Dettori

Slides Dettori-Durham.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 18:00 Session 3 - Charm Physics

Convener: Alexander Lenz

16:00 Challenges and recent progress in leptonic and semi-leptonic charmed meson decays on the lattice

Speaker: Tobias Tsang

Slides Tsang_UKFlavour17.pdf

16:30 The HQE in the charm system

Speaker: Thomas Rauh

Slides UKFlavour_Rauh.pdf

17:00 Charm Physics at LHCb

Speaker: Mark Williams

Slides FlavourUK_Williams_CharmLHCb_v3.pdf

17:30 Quark mass determinations on the lattice

Speaker: Lytle Andrew

Slides Lytle_FlavourUK17.pdf

18:30 → 20:00 Dinner

Tuesday 5 September

09:00 → 10:30 Session 4 - Lifetimes and mixing

Convener: Matthew Wingate

09:00 Lattice predictions for lifetimes and mixing

Speaker: Christine Davies

Slides durham-flavour17.pdf

09:30 Status quo of mixing and lifetimes

Speaker: Alexander Lenz

Slides UK_Flavour2017_Lenz.pdf

10:00 Experimental status of lifetimes, mixing and CP violation

Speaker: Matt Needham

Slides durham.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Session 6: Rare decays II

Convener: Tim Gershon

11:00 Rare B decays in the SM and beyond

Speaker: Sebastian Jäger

Slides ukflavour-jaeger.pdf

11:30 b to s l l

Speaker: Kostas Petridis

Slides IPPPFlavour2017_KAPetridis.pdf

12:00 Indirect searches for new physics at ATLAS

Speaker: Marcella Bona

Slides bona_atlas.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Session 5 - Rare decays I

Convener: Simone Bifani

14:00 Rare B decays on the lattice

Speaker: Oliver Witzel

Slides witzel_oliver.pdf

14:30 Charming new physics in rare decays

Speaker: Kirsty Leslie

Slides CharmNP_KLeslie.pdf

15:00 B to mu mu and LFUV

Speaker: Harry Cliff

Slides HCliff-UK-Meeting.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 17:30 Session 7: Semileptonic B decays

Convener: Franz Muheim

16:00 Semileptonic B decays on the lattice

Speaker: Chris Bouchard

Slides Bouchard_UKFlavor_2017.pdf

16:30 New physics searches with semileptonic B decays

Speaker: Luiz Vale Silva

Slides Vale_Silva_3.pdf

17:00 Semileptonic B decays and asymmetries

Speaker: Mika Vesterinen

Slides 2017_September_5_DurhamUKFlavour_Semileptonics_MikaVesterinen_V3.pdf

18:00 → 23:00 Workshop Dinner

Trip by coach to Marsden Bay;
Walk on the Beach;
Dinner at www.marsdengrotto.com

Wednesday 6 September

08:45 → 10:45 Session 8: Spectroscopy

Convener: Greig Cowan

08:45 Lattice results for spectroscopy

Speaker: David Wilson

Slides DavidWilson_UKFlavour2017.pdf

09:15 Tools for Spectroscopy

Speaker: Mike Pennington

Slides Pennington_UKFlavour_Sept2017.pdf

09:45 Recent highlights in heavy flavour production and spectroscopy from LHCb

Speaker: Patrick Spradlin

Slides Spradlin_2017.09Sep.06_UKFlavor.pdf

10:15 Associated production of heavy flavours

Speaker: Darren Price

Slides dprice_AssociatedHF_UKflavour.pdf

10:45 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Session 9: Exotics

Convener: Andreas Jüttner

11:00 Exotic hadrons on the lattice

Speaker: Gavin Cheung

Slides gavincheung_flavour.pdf

11:30 Exotic hadrons

Speaker: Timothy Burns

Slides talk.pdf

12:00 Status and prospects of exotic hadron searches at LHCb

Speaker: Greig Cowan

Slides gcowan_lhcb_exotic_hadrons.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Session 10: Hadronic B decays

Convener: Sebastian Jäger

14:00 Theory status of hadronic B decays

Speaker: Javier Virto

Slides UKFlavour.pdf

14:30 Experimental status of hadronic B-decays

Speaker: Wenbin Qian

Slides charmless_UK_Flavour.pdf

15:00 Determination of the CKM angle gamma

Speaker: Matt Kenzie

Slides UKFlavour.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 17:30 Session 11: BSM and future developments

Convener: Tim Gershon

16:00 BSM on the lattice

Speaker: Antonio Rago

Slides Flavour_2017_Rago.pdf

16:30 BSM

Speaker: Ben Gripaios

Slides durham.pdf

17:00 Future developments

Speaker: Guy Wilkinson

Slides future_flavour.pdf

17:25 Closing

Slides MarsdenBay.pdf