CP Violation

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.

1 - The meaning of discrete symmetries
2 - The discrete symmetries in quantum physics
3 - P, T, and C invariance in 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 Bº-Bº mixing
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 Bºq-Bºq systems
19 - KL?p0??
20 - Effective Hamiltonians
21 - *e'/*e
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
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 delays
35 - Some methods to extract *a
36 - Some methods to extract *g
37 - Extracting CKM phases with B0s decays
38 - Discrete ambiguities