B Physics and CP Violation

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dc.creatorQuinn, Helen
dc.date2001-11-14
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dc.descriptionThese lectures provide a basic overview of topics related to the study of CP Violation in B decays. In the first lecture, I review the basics of discrete symmetries in field theories, the quantum mechanics of neutral but flavor-non-trivial mesons, and the classification of three types of CP violation. The actual second lecture which I gave will be separately published as it is my Dirac award lecture and is focussed on the separate topic of strong CP Violation. In Lecture 2 here, I cover the Standard Model predictions for neutral B decays, and in particular discuss some channels of interest for CP Violation studies. Lecture 3 reviews the various tools and techniques used to deal with the hadronic physics effects. In Lecture 4, I briefly review the present and planned experiments that can study B decays. I cannot teach all the details of this subject in this short course, so my approach is instead to try to give students a grasp of the relevant concepts and an overview of the available tools. The level of these lectures is introductory. I will provide some references to more detailed treatments and current literature, but this is not a review article so I do not attempt to give complete references to all related literature. By now there are some excellent textbooks that cover this subject in great detail. I refer students to these for more details and for more complete references to the original literature.
dc.descriptionLectures given at Particle Physics School, ICTP, Trieste, July 2001
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0111177
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0111177
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/41063
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleB Physics and CP Violation
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