Flavour physics in the LHC era

Abstract

These lectures give a topical review of heavy flavour physics, in particular \CP violation and rare decays, from an experimental point of view. They describe the ongoing motivation to study heavy flavour physics in the LHC era, the current status of the field emphasising key results from previous experiments, some selected topics in which new results are expected in the near future, and a brief look at future projects.

Comments: 34 pages, 13 figures. Lectures given at the 69th Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics in St. Andrews, UK, 2012. v2 with minor corrections for proofs