Triangles, Triangles, Triangles: CP Violation in the B System and the Measurement of Strong and Weak Phases
Abstract
We present the current wisdom regarding the measurement of the CP-violating phases of the CKM unitarity triangle in -meson decays. After an introduction to the SM picture of CP violation, we review direct and indirect CP violation, the role of penguins and isospin analysis, and decays. We also discuss recent work on how to use SU(3) flavor symmetry, along with some dynamical approximations, to get at the CKM weak phases. Through time-independent -decay measurements alone, we show that it is possible to extract all information: the weak phases, the incalculable strong phase shifts, and the sizes of the tree, color-suppressed, and penguin contributions to these decays.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9406418,
title = {Triangles, Triangles, Triangles: CP Violation in the B System and the Measurement of Strong and Weak Phases},
author = {Oscar F. Hernandez and David London},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9406418},
year = {2007}
}
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(Based on two talks presented at the Montreal-Rochester-Syracuse-Toronto Conference, McGill University, May 1994, and to appear in the proceedings published World Scientific.), 15 pages and 8 figures in one simple Postscript file, UdeM-LPN-TH-198