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Flavour physics observables are excellent probes of new physics up to very high energy scales. Here we present FlavBit, the dedicated flavour physics module of the global-fitting package GAMBIT. FlavBit includes custom implementations of various likelihood routines for a wide range of flavour observables, including detailed uncertainties and correlations associated with LHCb measurements of rare, leptonic and semileptonic decays of B and D mesons, kaons and pions. It provides a generalised interface to external theory codes such as SuperIso, allowing users to calculate flavour observables in and beyond the Standard Model, and then test them in detail against all relevant experimental data. We describe FlavBit and its constituent physics in some detail, then give examples from supersymmetry and effective field theory illustrating how it can be used both as a standalone library for flavour physics, and within GAMBIT.
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We thank our colleagues within GAMBIT for many helpful discussions. We warmly thank the Casa Matemáticas Oaxaca, affiliated with the Banff International Research Station, for hospitality whilst part of this work was completed, and the staff at Cyfronet, for their always helpful supercomputing support. GAMBIT has been supported by STFC (UK; ST/K00414X/1, ST/P000762/1), the Royal Society (UK; UF110191), Glasgow University (UK; Leadership Fellowship), the Research Council of Norway (FRIPRO 230546/F20), NOTUR (Norway; NN9284K), the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (Sweden; Wallenberg Academy Fellowship), the Swedish Research Council (621-2014-5772), the Australian Research Council (CE110001004, FT130100018, FT140100244, FT160100274), The University of Sydney (Australia; IRCA-G162448), PLGrid Infrastructure (Poland), Polish National Science Center (Sonata UMO-2015/17/D/ST2/03532), the Swiss National Science Foundation (PP00P2-144674), the European Commission Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015-691164), the ERA-CAN+ Twinning Program (EU & Canada), the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO-Vidi 680-47-532), the National Science Foundation (USA; DGE-1339067), the FRQNT (Québec) and NSERC/The Canadian Tri-Agencies Research Councils (BPDF-424460-2012).
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The GAMBIT Flavour Workgroup: ., Bernlochner, F.U., Chrząszcz, M. et al. FlavBit: a GAMBIT module for computing flavour observables and likelihoods. Eur. Phys. J. C 77, 786 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5157-2
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