The second edition of this monograph discusses the usefulness of heavy
flavor as a probe of TeV-scale physics, exploring a number of
recently-uncovered "flavor anomalies" that are suggestive of possible
TeV-scale phenomena.
The large human endeavor at the Large Hadron Collider has not turned up
any New Physics, except the last particle of the Standard Model, the
Higgs boson. Revised and updated throughout, this book puts the first
results from the LHC into perspective and provides an outlook for a new
era of flavor physics. The author readdresses many questions raised in
the first edition and poses new ones. As before, the experimental
perspective is taken, with a focus on processes, rather than theories or
models, as a basis for exploration, and two-thirds of the book is
concerned with b -^ s or bs sb transitions. In the face of the advent of
Belle II and other flavor experiments, this book becomes a part of a
dialogue between the energy/collider and intensity/flavor frontiers that
will continue over the coming decade.
Researchers with an interest in modern particle physics will find this
book particularly valuable.