Charming Penguins Saga

Abstract

We briefly recall the main formulae for computing the B -> K pi branching ratios within the "charming penguin" approach, present an updated fit to the data, and explain why we believe that, in general, these fits can hardly be used to extract gamma.

Invited talk at FPCP '02 given by M. Ciuchini, uses econfmacros.tex. Final version with minor changes to appear in the proceedings

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