Proposal for a Workshop at the Aspen Center for Physics, Summer 2007

Y. Grossman, Z. Ligeti, G. Perez, and M. Schmaltz Between the LHC and B factories (probing beyond the standard model with flavor)

Flavor physics has been the focus of intense experimental and theoretical activity over the past several years. The B factories and hadron machines have provided a lot of data, basically in agreement with the standard model of flavor. This success, however, is puzzling when confronted with the hierarchy problem. Naturalness considerations of the standard model Higgs sector strongly motivate new physics at the TeV scale. Flavor physics, on the other hand, put severe bounds on such new physics. It is clear that any new physics at the TeV scale must have a special flavor structure. The LHC is scheduled to turn on only a few months after this workshop. For the first time we will be able to directly search for new particles at TeV energies. In addition, the machine will also provide a wealth of new data on third generation flavor physics, as ATLAS and CMS will record millions of reconstructed top quark decays and LHCb, ATLAS and CMS will accumulate unparalleled samples of b hadron decays. Thus, a major challenge and opportunity facing the theory community after the LHC startup will be to understand the flavor structure of the new physics at the TeV scale. To prepare for this challenge, we propose a workshop which focuses on new physics at the TeV scale and beyond, with an emphasis on issues of flavor. We envision participation by physicist interested in the physics of K, D, and mainly B mesons, flavor violation in leptons, top physics, and by physicists interested in models of electroweak symmetry breaking, TeV scale extensions, and models of flavor. There is still a lot to understand about flavor, and we believe that much progress can be made by seeding collaborations between these different communities in the informal atmosphere of an Aspen Center for Physics workshop. Dates of the workshop We propose a five week workshop. Since some of us have conflicting commitments during the month of June and in the second half of August, our most preferred starting date would be July 1st, 8th or 15th. Participants The following leaders in their respective fields have been contacted by us and have indi- cated their interest in attending our workshop: Cristian Bauer, Andrzej Buras, Adam Falk, Howard Haber, Lawrence Hall, Gudrun Hiller, Alex Kagan, David B. Kaplan, David E. Kaplan, Mike Luke, Aneesh Manohar, Bill Marciano, Antonio Masiero, , Ann Nelson, Mathias Neubert, Yossi Nir, Helen Quinn, Riccardo Rattazzi, Yael Shadmi, Amarjit Soni, Iain Stewart, Raman

1 Sundrum, Carlos Wagner, Mark Wise. A representative list of other possible participants who we believe would be interested to attend include: Kaustubh Agashe, Patricia Ball, Vernon Barger, Martin Beneke, Gabriela Barenboim, Ikaros Bigi, Gerhard Buchalla, Gustavo Burdman, Hsin-Chia Cheng, Andy Cohen, Csaba Csaki, Antonio Delgado, Patrick Fox, Michael Graesser, Tony Gherghetta, Walter Gold- berger, Christoph Greub, Christophe Grojean, Michael Gronau, Tao Han, JoAnne Hewett, Gino Isidori, Gordon Kane, Graham Kribs, Paul Langacker, Adam Leibovich, Vera Luth, Markus Luty, Yasuhiro Okada, Rabi Mohapatra, Ulrich Nierste, Michele Papucci, Aaron Pierce, Alex Pomarol, Tom Rizzo, Jon Rosner, Ira Rothstein, Chris Sachrajda, Marie- Helen Schune, Geraldine Servant, Witold Skiba, Misha Shifman, Yuri Shirman, Luca Sil- vestrini, Abner Soffer, Matthew Strassler, , Tim Tait, John Terning, Scott Thomas, Misha Voloshin, James Wells, Jure Zupan. Organizers Yuval Grossman Department of Physics Technion–Israel Institute of Technology Technion City, 32000 Haifa, Israel phone: +972-4-829-3741 email: [email protected] Zoltan Ligeti Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA phone: 510-486-4361 email: [email protected] Gilad Perez (contact person) C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics SUNY at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794-3840, USA phone: 510-219-4876 email: [email protected] Martin Schmaltz Physics Department, Boston University Boston, MA 02215, USA phone: 617-358-3058 email: [email protected]

• Each organizer has read and approved this proposal. • Yuval Grossman has agreed to be responsible for ensuring diversity in the group of people who apply to participate in the workshop.

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