Minimal Flavour Violation and Beyond

Abstract

We review the formulation of the Minimal Flavour Violation (MFV) hypothesis in the quark sector, as well as some "variations on a theme" based on smaller flavour symmetry groups and/or less minimal breaking terms. We also review how these hypotheses can be tested in B decays and by means of other flavour-physics observables. The phenomenological consequences of MFV are discussed both in general terms, employing a general effective theory approach, and in the specific context of the Minimal Supersymmetric extension of the SM.

14 pages, 5 figures. Review to appear in "Top and flavour physics in the LHC era" - Special Issue of The European Physical Journal C

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