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This overview of what we can hope to learn from high-statistics experiments in B physics in the next few years includes: (a) a review of parameters of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) Matrix; (b) direct determination of magnitudes of CKM…

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In this paper we investigate CP violation in charged decays of $D$ meson. Particularly, we study the direct CP asymmetry of the Cabibbo favored non-leptonic $D^+ \rightarrow \bar K^0 \pi^+$ and the doubly Cabibbo-suppressed decay mode $D^+…

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We present a method of determining weak phase \gamma in the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix from decays B->\eta K, \eta' K$ alone. Given a large ratio between color-suppressed and color-allowed tree diagrams extracted from global \pi\pi(K)…

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CLEO measurement of $B \to \pi^+ \pi^-$ and determination of weak phase $\alpha$

The CLEO collaboration has recently reported a (first) measurement of $BR (B \to \pi^+ \pi^-) = (4.7^{+1.8}_{-1.5} \pm 0.6) \times 10^{-6}$. We study, using recent results on QCD improved factorization, the implications of this measurement…

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P and CP violation in B Decays

While the Kobayashi--Maskawa model of CP violation passed its first crucial precision test in $B\to J/\psi K_S$, other CP asymmetries in $B$ and $B_s$ decays will have to be measured in order to critically test and overconstrain the model…

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Measurement of the branching fraction, polarization, and CP asymmetry for B0->rho+rho- decays, and determination of the CKM phase phi_2

We have measured the branching fraction B, longitudinal polarization fraction f_L, and CP asymmetry coefficients A and S for B0->rho+rho- decays with the Belle detector at the KEKB e+e- collider using 253 fb-1 of data. We obtain B = [22.8…

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Extracting $\alpha$ from the CP Asymmetry in $B^0 \to \pi^+ \pi^-$ Decays

The extraction of the CKM angle $\alpha$ from the asymmetry in $B^0 \to \pi^+\pi^-$ vs ${\bar B^0} \to \pi^+\pi^-$ suffers from a currently unknown penguin contribution. Experimentally, one can determine the magnitude and phase of the CP…

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CLEO-c inputs to the determination of the CKM angle gamma

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