Abstract:
The 21st century has been both an age of discovery, and an era of ever-increasing precision in quark-flavour physics. Focusing on charm and beauty, I shall trace the history of selected key topics, reviewing the enormous progress that has been made over this period and speculating on what the future may hold. I will argue that precise measurements of flavour observables may be our best hope for glimpsing the physics that lies beyond the Standard Model.
Brief CV of the speaker:
Guy Wilkinson FRS is a professor of physics at the University of Oxford, UK. At CERN he has worked on both LEP and the LHC, performing measurements in the electroweak and flavour sectors. He was a founding member of the LHCb experiment, which he led as Spokesperson during 2014-17. He has also worked on the CLEO-c experiment in the USA and is a current member of the BESIII collaboration. In 2017 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, largely in recognition for his studies in flavour.