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Standard Model $CP$ violation associated with the phase of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa quark mixing matrix is known to give small answers for the EDM observables. Moreover, predictions for the EDMs of neutrons and diamagnetic atoms suffer…
The existence of isospin admixtures in the physical $\Lambda$, $\pi^o$ complicates the extraction of Delta I=3/2 non-leptonic hyperon decay amplitudes from experimental data, allowing contributions associated with large Delta I=1/2…
Data on Ke4 decays allow one to extract experimental information on the elastic pi pi scattering amplitude near threshold, and to confront the outcome of the analysis with predictions made in the framework of QCD. These predictions concern…
We present new contributions to the decay matrix element $\Gamma_{12}^q$ of the $B_q$-$\bar B_q$ mixing complex, where $q=d$ or $s$. Our new results constitute the order $\alpha_s^2 N_f$ corrections to the penguin contributions to the…
The decay modes $\bar{B}_s \rightarrow \pi^0(\rho^0 )\,\eta^{(')} $ are dominated by electroweak penguins that are small in the standard model. In this work we investigate the contributions to these penguins from a model with an additional…
We present the first direct evaluation of DI = 3/2 K -> pi pi matrix elements with the aim of determining all the low-energy constants at NLO in the chiral expansion. Our numerical investigation demonstrates that it is indeed possible to…
We calculate penguin contributions to the lifetime splitting between the B_s and the B_d meson. In the Standard Model the penguin effects are found to be opposite in sign, but of similar magnitude as the contributions of the current-current…
We overview the detailed analysis of epsilon'/epsilon within the Standard Model, presented in ref. 1. When all sources of large logarithms are considered, both at short and long distances, it is possible to perform a reliable Standard Model…
Isospin symmetry is explicitly broken in the Standard Model by the non-zero differences of mass and electric charge between the up and down quarks. Both of these corrections are expected to have a comparable size of the order of one percent…
We study the effect of a sequential fourth generation on b\to s gamma, B_s mixing, B\to K^{(*)}\ell^+\ell^-, X_s\ell^+\ell^- and \phi K_S, taking into account the presence of a new CP phase in quark mixing. We find that the effects via…
Determinations of the CKM phase $\gamma$ from weak nonleptonic $B$ decays are affected by electroweak (EW) penguins and rescattering effects. In this talk it is explained how the EW penguin effects can be controlled with the help of SU(3)…
Isospin and U-spin symmetries are useful approximations for studying penguin dominance in $B$ meson decays to three kaons, $B\to KK\bar K$. We point out certain subtleties in treating these decays in these approximations. Resulting…
We evaluate the size of isospin breaking corrections to form factors $f$ and $g$ of the $K_{\ell 4}$ decay process $K^+\to\pi^+\pi^-\ell^+\nu_{\ell}$ which is actually measured by the extended NA48 setup at CERN. We found that, keeping…
The unitarity of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix has been well established by both direct and indirect measurements without any evidence of discrepancy. The CKM weak phase $\alpha$ is directly measured using an isospin analysis…
Charge and isospin event-by-event fluctuations in high-energy pp-collisions are predicted within the Unitary Eikonal Model ({\bf UEM}), in particular the fluctuation patterns of the ratios of charged-to-charged and neutral-to-charged pions.…
The experimental hint of large $B\to \eta^\prime + X_s$ is linked to the $b\to s$ penguins via the gluon anomaly. Using running $\alpha_s$ in the $\eta^\prime$-$g$-$g$ coupling, the standard $b\to sg^*$ penguin alone seems insufficient,…
Model estimates are obtained for the influence of Coulomb effects on the ratio of the cross sections for the production of charged and neutral $B\bar B$ and $B^*\bar B^*$ pairs in $e^+e^-$ annihilation. It is shown that the difference…
We present a study of the isospin-breaking (IB) corrections to pseudoscalar (PS) meson masses using the gauge configurations produced by the ETM Collaboration with $N_f=2+1+1$ dynamical quarks at three lattice spacings varying from 0.089 to…
Following the recent analysis done in collaboration with Jason Aebischer and Christoph Bobeth, I summarize the optimal, in our view, strategy for the present evaluation of the ratio $\varepsilon'/\varepsilon$ in the Standard Model (SM). In…
The penguin mediated processes $b\rightarrow s g$ and $b\rightarrow s l^+l^-$ are studied. In the Standard Model, for the leptonic modes improvement in experimental limits will put strigient bounds on the top mass, where the present limit…