Conference Summary - Beauty 2000

Abstract

I discuss some key issues covered at the Conference including physics goals, current results on CKM angles, rare decays, status of $|V_{cb}|$ and $|V_{ub}|$, CKM fits and progress on hardware.

19 pages, 8 figures; to be published in Proceedings of Beauty 2000, Kibbutz Maagan, Israel, September, 2000, edited by S. Erhan, Y. Rozen, and P. E. Schlein, Nucl. Inst. Meth. A, 2001. Corrected references

References in corpus (15)

• Determination of the Weak Phase gamma from Rate Measurements in B^+- -> pi K, pi pi Decays
• B decays in the upsilon expansion
• CP-Violating Asymmetries in Charmless Non-Leptonic Decays $B\to PP,PV,VV$ in the Factorization Approach
• Constraints on the CKM Angle $\gamma$ and Strong Phases from $B\to \pi K$ Decays
• Indirect Measurement of the Vertex and Angles of the Unitarity Triangle
• Resolving a Discrete Ambiguity in the CKM Angle $\beta$ through $B_{u,d}\to J/\psi K^{\ast }$ and $B_s\to J/\psi \varphi$ Decays
• Form factors of exclusive $b\to u$ transitions
• On the Inclusive Determination of V_{ub} from the Lepton Invariant Mass Spectrum
• On the Other Five KM Triangles
• Theoretical Summary Lecture for EPS HEP99
• Comments on CKM elements
• Memo on Extracting |V(cb)| and |V(ub)/V(cb)| from semileptonic B decays
• Exclusive semileptonic B decays: lattice results and dispersive bounds
• The B -> D* l nu Form Factor at Zero Recoil
• The quest for the Cabibbo Kobayashi Maskawa Matrix