Title: Attacking the Standard Model via Heavy Quark Flavor Physics -- An Experimentalist's Point of View

Abstract:

The Standard Model of particle physics continues to be a stubbornly accurate description of all observed physical phenomena. Experimental deviations from this scenario are rare, despite strong phenomenological arguments towards it being an incomplete picture. Recent results from flavor physics provide some of the most compelling hints of tensions with the Standard Model. We discuss these deviations within the paradigm of B-physics, in semileptonic tauonic decays, the difference in Vub and Vcb from inclusive and exclusive measurements, and in the rare b->s transition sector. We will discuss the latest updates on these measurements and highlight on their future prospects in LHCb Run II and Belle II.