Beauty 2006 -- Conference Summary and Future Prospects

Abstract

The status of $B$ physics, CP violation and related measurements at the time of the Beauty 2006 conference are summarized. Particular attention is given to the exciting prospects that lie ahead, at the commencement of the LHC era, and beyond.

Proceedings of The 11th Conference on B Physics at Hadron Machines (Beauty 2006), September 25-29, 2006, Keble College, Oxford. To appear in Nucl. Phys. (Proc. Suppl.)

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• CP Violation and the CKM Matrix: Assessing the Impact of the Asymmetric B Factories
• The 2004 UTfit Collaboration Report on the Status of the Unitarity Triangle in the Standard Model
• Evidence of the Purely Leptonic Decay B- --> tau- nu_tau-bar
• Direct Limits on the Bs Oscillation Frequency
• Measurement of the Bs-Bsbar Oscillation Frequency
• Measurements of branching fractions, rate asymmetries, and angular distributions in the rare decays B --> Kl+l- and B --> K*l+l-
• Ambiguity-Free Measurement of cos2beta: Time-Integrated and Time-Dependent Angular Analyses of B->J/Psi K pi
• Measurement of Forward-Backward Asymmetry and Wilson Coefficients in $B\to K^{\ast }{\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{-}$
• Measurement of phi_3 with Dalitz plot analysis of B+ -> D(*)K(*)+ decay
• A Search for the Flavor-Changing Neutral Current Decay B0_s -> mu^+mu^- in pp(bar) Collisions at \sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV with the D0 Detector
• Studies of CP violation in B->J/psi K* decays
• Observation of Bs->K+K- and Measurements of Branching Fractions of Charmless Two-body Decays of B0 and Bs Mesons in p-pbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV
• Observation of B+ --> K0bar K+ and B0 --> K0 K0bar
• Search for Bs -> mu+mu- and Bd -> mu+mu- Decays in ppbar Collisions with CDF II
• Measurement of the B -> pi l nu Branching Fraction and Determination of |Vub| with Tagged B Mesons
• Measurement of the CKM parameter cos(2phi_1) using time-dependent Dalitz analysis of B0bar -> D[Ks pi+ pi-] h0
• Evidence for B^(*)_s bar{B}^(*)_s Production at the Upsilon(5S)
• First Evidence and Measurement of B_s^(*) barB_s^(*) Production at the Upsilon(5S)
• Measurement of the Branching Fraction and Time-Dependent CP Asymmetry in the Decay B0->D*+D*-Ks