Gino Isidori - B-physics anomalies and the flavour problem

Abstract:

Recent data in semileptonic B-meson decays indicate a coherent pattern of deviations from the Standard Model predictions. I review these data and discuss their interpretation, both in terms of a generic effective-theory approach and in terms of more complete extensions of the Standard Model. I will discuss, in particular, how present data seem to point toward new dynamics not far from the TeV scale, possibly by linked to the origin of fermion mass hierarchies, and to the unification of quarks and leptons. Implications for future measurements both at low and high-energies are also briefly discussed.