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Description
Kaons participate in a number of flavour-changing neutral current decays that are highly suppressed in the Standard Model, which are therefore expected to be sensitive to new physics. Calculating the long-distance contributions to these decay modes is a challenging theoretical problem, and crucial for channels where these effects are dominant. Lattice QCD can provide a first-principles framework for exploring these phenomena, with the potential for input on a variety of observables and non-perturbative quantities. Such input will constitute important Standard Model comparisons with anticipated NA62 Run 2 and LHCb results. In this talk I will present the current state of lattice QCD calculations for rare kaon decays and discuss the future landscape for rare kaon lattice calculations.
