TASI-2013 Lectures on Flavor Physics

Abstract

A somewhat eclectic choice of topics: Review of Flavor in the quark sector of the SM, the appearance of the CKM matrix and determination of its elements, FCNCs, the GIM mechanism. Minimal Flavor Violation. A close look at neutral meson mixing. CP asymmetries. Effective Field Theory in Weak interactions.

Lectures on Flavor Physics delivered at TASI 2013