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Report number	hep-ph/0608010 ; CERN-PH-TH-2006-152
Title	Flavour Physics and CP Violation
Author(s)	Fleischer, Robert (CERN)
Publication	CERN, 2006
Imprint	1 Aug 2006
Number of pages	82
In:	2005 European School of High-Energy Physics, pp.103-180
DOI	10.5170/CERN-2006-014.103
Subject category	Particle Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract	The starting point of these lectures is an introduction to the weak interactions of quarks and the Standard-Model description of CP violation, where the central role is played by the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix and the corresponding unitarity triangles. Since the B-meson system will govern the stage of (quark) flavour physics and CP violation in this decade, it will be our main focus. We shall classify B-meson decays, introduce the theoretical tools to deal with them, investigate the requirements for non-vanishing CP-violating asymmetries, and discuss the main strategies to explore CP violation and the preferred avenues for physics beyond the Standard Model to enter. This formalism is then applied to discuss the status of important B-factory benchmark modes, where we focus on puzzling patterns in the data that may indicate new-physics effects, as well as the prospects for B-decay studies at the LHC.

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