Flavor Physics and Warped Extra Dimensions

Abstract

We consider a five dimensional model with warped geometry where the standard model fermions and gauge bosons correspond to bulk fields. Fermion masses and CKM mixings can be explained in a geometrical picture, without hierarchical Yukawa couplings. We discuss various flavor violating processes induced by (excited) gauge boson exchange and non-renormalizable operators. Some of them, such as muon-electron conversion, are in the reach of next generation experiments.

6 pages, talk presented at SUSY02, DESY Hamburg, Germany, June 2002