Introduction to heavy meson decays and CP asymmetries
These lectures are intended to provide an introduction to heavy meson decays and CP violation. The first lecture contains a brief review of the standard model and how the CKM matrix and CP violation arise, mixing and CP violation in neutral meson systems, and explanation of the cleanliness of the sin 2{beta} measurement. The second lecture deals with the heavy quark limit, some applications of heavy quark symmetry and the operator product expansion for exclusive and inclusive semileptonic B decays. The third lecture concerns with theoretically clean CP violation measurements that may become possible in the future, and some developments toward a better understanding of nonleptonic B decays. The conclusions include a subjective best buy list for the near future.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Office of Science. High Energy Physics (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098
- OSTI ID:
- 809888
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL-51835; HEP-PH/0302031; R&D Project: 417001; TRN: US0302694
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: SLAC Summer Institute on Particle Physics: Secrets of the B Meson, Menlo Park, CA (US), 08/05/2002--08/16/2002; Other Information: PBD: 5 Feb 2003
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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