Weak Interactions of Light Flavours

Abstract

An overview is given of weak interaction physics of the light flavours. It starts with the definition of the CKM matrix and the measurement of its components in the light-flavour sector via semi-leptonic decays. The main part of the lectures is devoted to non-leptonic decays with a main emphasis on analytical calculations of $K\to \pi \pi$ and $K^0\leftrightarrow \kob$ mixing. It finishes with an overview of Chiral Perturbation Theory in $K\to 3\pi$ and of rare Kaon decays.

Lectures given at the Advanced School on QCD at Benasque, Spain, 3-6 July 2000. 27 pages