Flavor Questions for the LHC

Abstract

The physics underlying quark and lepton masses and mixings (the "flavor problem") is the least well understood aspect of the Standard Model. Some questions of flavor physics, and ways in which the LHC can help shed light on this problem, are described.

Comments: 12 pages, 8 figures, presented at Flavor Physics and CP Violation 2009, Lake Placid, NY, May 27 - June 1, 2009, to be published by Proceedings of Science. Misprints corrected; reference added