Lectures on Flavor Physics and CP Violation

Abstract

Two short introductory lectures on Flavor Physics delivered at CLASHEP 2015. Among included topics: The KM matrix and the KM model of CP-violation, Determination of KM Elements, FCNC and GIM, New Physics and Flavor, Neutral Meson Mixing and CP Asymmetries. Many problems for the student, and solutions to selected problems, included.

Comments: Presented at the 2015 CERN-Latin-American School of High-Energy Physics, Ibarra, Ecuador, 5 - 17 March 2015. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1501.05283