Prof. Dr. Tobias Hurth
  Cluster of Excellence PRISMA+
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Staudingerweg 7, D-55099 Mainz
Germany
Office: 04-424
Tel: + 49 6131 3922730
Fax: + 49 6131 3924611
                                      CERN - Theory Division
CH-1211 Geneva 23
Switzerland
Office: 4.1-032
Tel: + 41 22 767 9723
Fax: + 41 22 767 3850
E-mail: tobias.hurth@cern.ch


Research Interests:

  • Interplay of Collider and Flavour Physics in the New Physics Search
  • SCET, SMEFT, and other Field Theoretical Methods
  • (Non)-Perturbative QCD Corrections to Rare B decays
  • CP Violation
  • Neutrino Physics

  • A selection of recent publications:

  • arXiv:2311.04963 [bep-ph]: A global analysis of the SMEFT under the minimal MFV assumption
  • arXiv:2310.05585 [bep-ph]: B anomalies in the post R_K era
  • arXiv:2306.03134 [bep-ph]: Inclusive B --> X_s ll with a hadronic cut
  • arXiv:2301.01739 [bep-ph]: Refactorisation in subleading B --> X_s gamma
  • arXiv:2210.07221 [bep-ph]: Neutral current B decay anomalies
  • arXiv:2104.10058 [bep-ph]: More indications for Lepton Nonuniversality
  • arXiv:2012.12207 [bep-ph]: Model-independent analysis of the angular observables in B0 ---> K*0 mu+mu- and B+ ---> K*+ mu+mu-
  • arXiv:2007.04191 [bep-ph]: Phenomenology of inclusive B ---> X_s ll in the Belle II era
  • arXiv:2006.04213 [bep-ph]: On the new LHCb angular analysis of B ---> K*mu+mu-: Hadronic effects or New Physics
  • arXiv:2006.00624 [bep-ph]: Resolved 1/mb contributions to b > sll and b > s gamma
  • arXiv:2003.05432 [bep-ph]: The impact of flavour data on global fits of the MFV SMEFT
  • arXiv:1908.07507 [bep-ph]: Long distance effects in inclusive rare B decays and phenomenology of B ---> X_d ll
  • arXiv:1904.08399 [bep-ph]: Update on the b ---> s anomalies
  • arXiv:1903.00500 [hep-ph]: Matching for FCNC effects in the flavour-symmetric SMEFT
  • arXiv:1806.02791 [hep-ph]: Hadronic and new physics contributions to B ---> K*ll decays
  • arXiv:1708.044746 [hep-ph]: Direct determination of Wilson coefficients using B ---> K*ll decays
  • arXiv:1705.10366 [hep-ph]: Subleading power factorization in B ---> X_s l+ l-
  • arXiv:1705.06274 [hep-ph]: On lepton non-universality in exclusive b --> s ll decays
  • arXiv:1702.02234 [hep-ph]:Large hadronic power corrections or new physics in the rare decay B ---> K*ll
  • Complete list from Inspires

  • A selection of talks

  • 16th Annual Meeting of the Helmholtz Alliance, Hamburg, 12/2023, LHCb anomalies and inclusive penguin modes at Belle-II
  • Workshop on Anomalies at the LHC, Shanghai, 9, /2023, LHCb anomalies and inclusive penguin modes at Belle-II
  • Saclay Seminar, 9/2023, LHCb anomalies,incluive penguin modes and refactorisation
  • FPCP 2023, Lyon, 5/2023, Theoretical progress in inclusive penguin decaysSaclay
  • LHC Workshop Kruger22, Kruger Gate South Africa, 12/2022, New Physics in Flavour Observables ?
  • ECT Workshop LFC22, Trento, 9/2022, New Physics in Flavour Observables
  • LV(U)V Workshop, Zurich, 6/2022, Semileptonic Inclusive Penguins
  • RTG Colloquium, Aachen, 6/2021, Semileptonic Penguins and b > s anomalies
  • HEP2021, Thessaloniki, 6/2021, Semileptonic Penguins
  • DESY Seminar, Hamburg, 1/2020, Resolved contributions to inclusive b > s gamma and b > s ll
  • 7th bsll workshop, Lyon, 9/2019, Plenary talk: Resolved contributions to inclusive semileptonic penguin decays
  • 31st Recontres des Blois, Blois, 7/2019, Plenary talk: New physics in semileptonic penguins ?
  • Flavour 2019, MIAPP workshop, Munich, 5/2019, Plenary talk: Power corrections to inclusive semileptonic pen\ guin decays
  • FLASY 2018, Basel, 7/2018, Plenary talk: Theory of inclusive semileptonic pen\ guin decays
  • Capri Workshop, Anacapri, 6/2018, Plenary talk: Status report on b > s anomalies
  • LIO International Conference, Lyon, 4/2018, Plenary talk: Theory of inclusive semileptonic penguin decays
  • Zurich Phenomenology Workshop, 1/2018: Theory errors on the LHCb anomalies\
  • XXIV Epiphany Conference,Cracow, 1/2018, Plenary talk: Inclusive semileptonic penguin decays
  • KIAS-Workshop, Seoul, 11/2017, Plenary talk: LHCb anomalies and lepton universality in exclusive semileptonic penguin decays
  • Siegen-Workshop 10/2017, Plenary talk: Subleading corrections in inclusive b -> s ll
  • CKM-Workshop, Mumbai, 11/2016, Theory of inclusive b -> s ll decays
  • MIAPP-Program, Munich, 11/2016, Plenary talk: Semileptonic penguin decays
  • HC2NP 9/2016, Tenerife, 11/2016, Plenary talk: Power corrections to semileptonic penguin decays
  • ERC-Workshop on Effective Field Theories, Eltville, 9/2016, Plenary talk: Power corrections to semileptonic penguin decays
  • Capri-Workshop Anacapri 6/2016, Plenary talk: Semileptonic penguin decays
  • Planck 2016, Valencia, 5/2016 Plenary talk: Possible Flavour Anomalies in the recent LHCb data
  • Rare B Decays, Barcelona, 4/2016 Plenary talk: Subleading power factorization in inclusive semileptonic penguin decays
  • Flavour and Composite Models, Lyon, 11/2015 Plenary talk: Status of flavour physics and semileptonic penguin decays
  • Physics colloquium, Mainz, 7/2015 Plenary talk: Flavour matters
  • The Landscape of Flavour Physics, Pisa, 12/2014 Plenary talk: Rare B decays
  • FPCP 2014, Marseille, 5/2014 Plenary talk: Recent phenomenological results in rare B decays
  • LHC implications for TeV-scale physics, CERN, Geneva 7/2012 Plenary talk: Status of New Physics searches in B physics
  • PASCOS 2012, Merida, Mexico 6/2012 Plenary talk: New Physics Search with Flavour
  • PANIC2011, MIT, Cambridge 7/2011 Recent Progress in Radiative and Semileptonic Penguin Decays
  • PANIC2011, MIT, Cambridge 7/2011 Correlations between High-p_T and Flavour Physics
  • SuperB Kick-off Meeting, Elba, 5/2011 Exclusive and Inclusive b ---> s ll Transitions
  • PHOTON11, Spa, 5/2011 Plenary talk: Radiative B Decays in the SM and the MSSM
  • Charged Higgs 2010, Uppsala, 9/2010 Plenary talk: Interpretation of Charged Higgs Effects in Low-energy Flavour Physics
  • ICHEP 2010, Paris, 7/2010 New Physics Sensitivity of the Rare Decay Mode b ---> s l+l-
  • DESY Workshop on Collider Phenomenology, Hamburg, 10/2009 Plenary talk: Low Energy Precision and High Energy Collisions
  • EPS HEP2009, Cracow, 7/2009 Flavour-violating Squark and Gluino Decays
  • EPS HEP2009, Cracow, 7/2009 New Physics Sensitivity of the Decay B ---> K* l+l-
  • SuperB Physics Workshop, Warwick, 4/2009 Summary talk on B Physics
  • ICHEP2008, Philadelphia, 8/2008 Plenary talk: Heavy Flavour Theory
  • Heavy Flavour Workshop, Capri, 6/2008 Plenary talk: New Observables in the Decay B ---> K* l+ l-
  • EuroFlavour07, Orsay 11/2007 Plenary talk: Logarithmically Enhanced Corrections in anti-B ---> X(s) l+ l-
  • PHENO 2007 Symposium, Madison 5/2007 Plenary talk: New Physics in the B Sector
  • EuroFlavour06, Barcelona 11/2006 Plenary talk: Light-cone sum rules in Soft-Collinear Effective Theory
  • Beauty06 Oxford 9/2006 Plenary talk: Rare Decays as a Probe for New Physics
  • ICHEP Moscow 7/2006 Status of SM calculations of b --> s transitions
  • EPS05 Lisbon 7/2005 Light-cone sum rules in SCET
  • EPS05 Lisbon 7/2005 Towards the NNLL precision in B ---> X_s gamma
  • Beauty 2005 Assisi 6/2005 Plenary talk: New Physics Search in Flavour Physics


  • Invited Contribution to Reviews of Modern Physics
    Rev.Mod.Phys.85 (2013) 795 [arXiv:1211.6453]

  • New Physics Search with Flavor in the LHC Era
  • Invited Contribution to Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science
    Ann.Rev.Nucl.Part.Sci.60:645-677,2010 [arXiv:1005.1224]

  • Radiative and Electroweak Penguin Decays of B Mesons
  • Invited Contribution to Reviews of Modern Physics
    Rev.Mod.Phys.75 (2003) 1159 [hep-ph/0212304]

  • Present Status of Inclusive Rare B Decays

  • Scientific Coordination of the Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics (MITP) 2012-2020

  • Program 2020
  • Program 2019
  • Program 2018
  • Program 2017
  • Program 2016
  • Program 2015
  • Program 2014
  • Program 2013
  • More information about MITP

    Some lectures at particle physics schools

  • International Particle Physics School, Istanbul, 2/2011 Lectures on Flavour Physics Part 1, Part 2
  • GIF 2010 Saveurs Lourdes, Besse, 9/2010 Saveurs Lourdes et Novelle Physique
  • School on Flavour Physics, Flavianet, Bern, 7/2010 Flavour Physics in the Standard Model

  • Lectures at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz:

  • Summer Term 2024 Flavour Physics and Effective Field Theories
  • Winter Term 2023/24 Theoretical Physics V and Preparatory Course in Mathematics
  • Winter Term 2022/23 Preparatory Course in Mathematics
  • Summer Term 2022 Flavour Physics and Effective Field Theories
  • Winter Term 2021/22 Theoretical Physics II
  • Summer Term 2021 Theoretical Physics I
  • Winter Term 2020/21 Preparatory Course in Mathematics
  • Winter Term 2019/20 Preparatory Course in Mathematics
  • Winter Term 2018/19 Effective Field Theories
  • Summer Term 2017 Weak interactions and Precision Experiments
  • Winter Term 2016/17 Preparatory Course in Mathematics
  • Winter Term 2015/16 Quantum Field Theory II
  • Spring Term 2015 Theoretical Physics VI
  • Spring Term 2014 Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics
  • Spring Term 2013 Neutrino Physics
  • Winter Term 2012/13 Theoretical Physics VI
  • Summer Term 2012 Preparatory Course in Mathematics
  • Summer Term 2011 Mathematical Methods I
  • Winter Term 2010 Topics in Electroweak Theory
  • Lectures at ETH Zurich, University of Zurich:

  • Summer Term 2013 Effective Theories
  • Summer Term 2012 Flavour of Leptons and Quarks
  • Summer Term 2011 Flavour of Leptons and Quarks
  • Summer Term 2010 Flavour of Leptons and Quarks
  • Winter Term 2009/2010 Effective Theories
  • Summer Term 2009 Flavour Physics: Theory and Experiment
  • Winter Term 2008 QFT and Model Building
  • Summer Term 2008 Flavour Physics: Theory and Experiment
  • Winter Term 2007/2008 Effective Theories
  • Winter Term 2006/2007 Flavour Physics: Theory and Experiment
  • Summer Term 2006 Mathematische Methoden der Physik II
  • Winter Term 2005/2006 Flavour Physics: Theory and Experiment
  • Winter Term 2004/2005 Selected Topics in Quantum Field Theory
  • Winter Term 2003/2004 Quantum Field Theory
  • Winter Term 2002/2003 Quantum Field Theory
  • Winter Term 2001/2002 QFT and Supersymmetry
  • Lectures at the 11th Mexican School of Particles and Fields, Xalapa, August 2004:

  • First Lecture on Flavour Physics

  • Organisation of Workshops on the Interplay of Flavour and Collider Physics, CERN, 2005/06/07:

  • Flavour in the Era of the LHC
  • Final report
  • published in the book series Advances in the Physics of Particles and Nuclei, Vol.29, (R.Fleischer, T.Hurth, M.Mangano, Eds.)

    Organisation of Follow-up Working Group, CERN:

  • Interplay of Flavour and Collider Physics
  • First meeting in December 2007
  • Second meeting in March 2009
  • Third meeting in December 2009
  • Organisation of Joint Meetings of LHCb Collaboration with the CERN Theory Group, CERN, 2003-2009 three times a year

    Workshops on the Discovery Potential of an Asymmetric B Factory at 1036 Luminosity, SLAC, 2003:

  • Final Report, hep-ph/0503261

  • To CERN, CERN Theory Group, JGU Mainz, THEP,

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