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CP Violation

Gustavo Castelo Branco, Luís Lavoura, and Joao Paulo Silva

A Clarendon Press Publication

International Series of Monographs on Physics

The violation of charge-conjugation and parity symmetries is a leading area of research in particle and nuclear physics, with important implications for understanding the generation of matter in the universe. This book provides a self-contained introduction and is designed to bring beginning researchers to the forefront of the field.

$210.00

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Published: 23 September 1999

536 Pages | 51 line illus

ISBN: 9780198503996

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CP Violation

Gustavo Castelo Branco, Luís Lavoura, and Joao Paulo Silva

A Clarendon Press Publication

International Series of Monographs on Physics

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. Parameterizations of the CKM matrix
17. ε
18. Mixing in the B⁰_^Q-B⁰_^Q systems
19. K_L?p⁰??
20. Effective Hamiltonians
21. ε'/ε
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 delays
35. Some methods to extract *a
36. Some methods to extract γ
37. Extracting CKM phases with B⁰_^s decays
38. Discrete ambiguities
A. Two notes on CP-transformation phases
B. Effective Hamiltonian for ? processes
C. The vacuum-insertion approximation in ? mixing
D. The effective Hamiltonian for ?
E. ? mixing
References
Index
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. ε
18. Mixing in the B⁰_q - B⁰⁰_q systems
19. K_Lπ⁰vé
20. Effective Hamiltonians
21. ε'/ε
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 γ
37. Extracting CKM phases with B⁰_^s decays
38. Discrete ambiguities