CP violation

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CP violation

Gustavo Castelo Branco, Luís Lavoura, João Paulo Silva

(The international series of monographs on physics, 103)(Oxford science publications)

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1999

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [485]-501) and index

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Description

CP violation is an intriguing and elusive subject, and current knowledge of it remains limited, on both the experimental and theoretical levels. Researchers lack a fundamental understanding of its origin, and this is all the more important because CP violation is related to the generation problem and mass problem, two of the basic open questions in particle physics. This book provides beginning researchers with a self-contained introduction to the subject, starting at an elementary level and taking the reader to the forefront of current research.

Table of Contents

  • I: CP IN QUANTUM MECHANICS
  • 1. The meaning of the discrete symmetries
  • 2. The discrete symmetries in quantum physics
  • 3. P, T, and C invariance of QED
  • 4. Applications of the discrete symmetries
  • 5. Weak and strong phases
  • 6. Neutral-meson systems: mixing
  • 7. Neutral-meson systems: decays
  • 8. The neutral-kaon system
  • 9. Heavy neutral-meson systems
  • 10. Experimental status of B0-B0 mixing
  • II: CP VIOLATION IN THE STANDARD MODEL
  • 11. Gauge structure of the standard model
  • 12. The fermions in the standard model
  • 13. Fundamental properties of the CKM matrix
  • 14. Weak-basis invariants and CP violation
  • 15. Moduli of the CKM matrix elements
  • 16. Parametrizations of the CKM matrix
  • 17. *e
  • 18. Mixing in the B0q - B00q systems
  • 19. KLpi0ve
  • 20. Effective Hamiltonians
  • 21. *e'/*e
  • III: CP VIOLATION BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL
  • 22. Multi-Higgs-doublet models
  • 23. Spontaneous CP violation
  • 24. Models with vector-like quarks
  • 25. Massive neutrinos and CP violation in the leptonic sector
  • 26. The left-right-symmetric model
  • 27. The strong CP problem
  • IV: CP VIOLATION IN B DECAYS
  • 28. Introduction
  • 29. Some experimental issues
  • 30. The mixing parameters
  • 31. Decay amplitudes: diagrammatics
  • 32. Decay amplitudes: effective Hamiltonian
  • 33. CKM phases and interference CP violation
  • 34. Cascade decays
  • 35. Some methods to extract *a
  • 36. Some methods to extract *g
  • 37. Extracting CKM phases with B0s decays
  • 38. Discrete ambiguities

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