CP Violation - A New Era

Abstract

We give a pedagogical review of the theory of CP violation with emphasis on the implications of recent experimental results. The review includes: (i) A detailed description of how CP violation arises in the Standard Model and in its extension that allows for neutrino masses; (ii) The formalism of CP violation in meson decays and its application to various K decays (ε_K, ε^\prime and K\toπνν), D decays (D\to Kπand D\to KK) and B decays (B\to\ellνX, B\toψK_S and B\toππ, including a discussion of the `penguin pollution' problem); (iii) Supersymmetry: the CP problems and the use of CP violation as a probe of the mechanism of dynamical supersymmetry breaking.

58 pages, 1 Postscript figure, lectures at the 55th Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, St. Andrews, Scotland, August 7-23, 2001

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