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

Registration and Coffee

Session 1 - Kaon 1

Convener: Cristina Lazzeroni

1 Welcome

Speaker: Keith Ellis

Slides UK-flavour-2017.pdf

2 Rare Kaon decays

Speaker: Martin Gorbahn

Slides UK_Flavour_2017_Gorbahn.pdf

3 Search for K to pi+ nu nu at NA62

Speaker: Viacheslav Duk

Slides duk_ukflavor2017.pdf

4 Rare Kaon decays on the lattice

Antonin Portelli

Speaker: Antonin Portelli

Slides portelli.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Session 2 - Kaon 2

Convener: Sebastian Jäger

5 Isopin effects on the lattice

Speaker: Vera Guelpers

Slides guelpers_flavour17.pdf

6 Searches for hidden sector particles and LFC tests at NA62

Speaker: Evgueni Goudzovski

Slides goudzovski_040917.pdf

7 Rare strange decays at LHCb

Speaker: Francesco Dettori

Slides Dettori-Durham.pdf

15:30 Coffee

Session 3 - Charm Physics

Convener: Alexander Lenz

8 Challenges and recent progress in leptonic and semi-leptonic charmed meson decays on the lattice

Speaker: Tobias Tsang

Slides Tsang_UKFlavour17.pdf

9 The HQE in the charm system

Speaker: Thomas Rauh

Slides UKFlavour_Rauh.pdf

10 Charm Physics at LHCb

Speaker: Mark Williams

Slides FlavourUK_Williams_CharmLHCb_v3.pdf

11 Quark mass determinations on the lattice

Speaker: Lytle Andrew

Slides Lytle_FlavourUK17.pdf

18:30 Dinner

Tuesday 5 September

Session 4 - Lifetimes and mixing

Convener: Matthew Wingate

12 Lattice predictions for lifetimes and mixing

Speaker: Christine Davies

Slides durham-flavour17.pdf

13 Status quo of mixing and lifetimes

Speaker: Alexander Lenz

Slides UK_Flavour2017_Lenz.pdf

14 Experimental status of lifetimes, mixing and CP violation

Speaker: Matt Needham

Slides durham.pdf

10:30 Coffee

Session 6: Rare decays II

Convener: Tim Gershon

15 Rare B decays in the SM and beyond

Speaker: Sebastian Jäger

Slides ukflavour-jaeger.pdf

16 b to s l l

Speaker: Kostas Petridis

Slides IPPPFlavour2017_KAPetridis.pdf

17 Indirect searches for new physics at ATLAS

Speaker: Marcella Bona

Slides bona_atlas.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Session 5 - Rare decays I

Convener: Simone Bifani

18 Rare B decays on the lattice

Speaker: Oliver Witzel

Slides witzel_oliver.pdf

19 Charming new physics in rare decays

Speaker: Kirsty Leslie

Slides CharmNP_KLeslie.pdf

20 B to mu mu and LFUV

Speaker: Harry Cliff

Slides HCliff-UK-Meeting.pdf

15:30 Coffee

Session 7: Semileptonic B decays

Convener: Franz Muheim

21 Semileptonic B decays on the lattice

Speaker: Chris Bouchard

Slides Bouchard_UKFlavor_2017.pdf

22 New physics searches with semileptonic B decays

Speaker: Luiz Vale Silva

Slides Vale_Silva_3.pdf

23 Semileptonic B decays and asymmetries

Speaker: Mika Vesterinen

Slides 2017_September_5_DurhamUKFlavour_Semileptonics_MikaVesterinen_V3.pdf

18:00 Workshop Dinner

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

Wednesday 6 September

Session 8: Spectroscopy

Convener: Greig Cowan

24 Lattice results for spectroscopy

Speaker: David Wilson

Slides DavidWilson_UKFlavour2017.pdf

25 Tools for Spectroscopy

Speaker: Mike Pennington

Slides Pennington_UKFlavour_Sept2017.pdf

26 Recent highlights in heavy flavour production and spectroscopy from LHCb

Speaker: Patrick Spradlin

Slides Spradlin_2017.09Sep.06_UKFlavor.pdf

27 Associated production of heavy flavours

Speaker: Darren Price

Slides dprice_AssociatedHF_UKflavour.pdf

10:45 Coffee

Session 9: Exotics

Convener: Andreas Jüttner

28 Exotic hadrons on the lattice

Speaker: Gavin Cheung

Slides gavincheung_flavour.pdf

29 Exotic hadrons

Speaker: Timothy Burns

Slides talk.pdf

30 Status and prospects of exotic hadron searches at LHCb

Speaker: Greig Cowan

Slides gcowan_lhcb_exotic_hadrons.pdf

12:30 Lunch

Session 10: Hadronic B decays

Convener: Sebastian Jäger

31 Theory status of hadronic B decays

Speaker: Javier Virto

Slides UKFlavour.pdf

32 Experimental status of hadronic B-decays

Speaker: Wenbin Qian

Slides charmless_UK_Flavour.pdf

33 Determination of the CKM angle gamma

Speaker: Matt Kenzie

Slides UKFlavour.pdf

15:30 Coffee

Session 11: BSM and future developments

Convener: Tim Gershon

34 BSM on the lattice

Speaker: Antonio Rago

Slides Flavour_2017_Rago.pdf

35 BSM

Speaker: Ben Gripaios

Slides durham.pdf

36 Future developments

Speaker: Guy Wilkinson

Slides future_flavour.pdf

37 Closing

Slides MarsdenBay.pdf