Exploring CP Violation through B Decays

Abstract

The B-meson system provides many strategies to perform stringent tests of the Standard-Model description of CP violation. In this brief review, we discuss implications of the currently available B-factory data on the angles alpha, beta and gamma of the unitarity triangle, emphasize the importance of Bs studies at hadronic B experiments, and discuss new, theoretically clean strategies to determine gamma.

22 pages, 4 figures, invited brief review for Modern Physics Letters A

References in corpus (17)

• QCD Factorization in B -> pi K, pi pi Decays and Extraction of Wolfenstein Parameters
• Observation of Large CP Violation in the Neutral B Meson System
• Observation of CP violation in the B^0 meson system
• Measurement of the CP-Violating Asymmetry Amplitude sin2beta
• Improved Measurement of Mixing-induced CP Violation in the Neutral B Meson System
• Measurements of Branching Fractions and CP-violating Asymmetries in B0->pi+ pi-, K+ pi-, K+ K- Decays
• CP Violation in the B System and Relations to $K\to \pi \nu \bar{\nu }$ Decays
• Improving bounds on $\gamma$ in $B^{\pm }\to D{K}^{\pm }$ and $B^{\pm ,0}\to D{X}_s^{\pm ,0}$
• Measuring $\gamma$ in $B^{\pm }\to K^{\pm }(K{K}^{\ast }{)}_D$ decays
• Exploring CP Violation through Correlations in B --> pi K, B_d --> pi^+pi^-, B_s --> K^+K^- Observable Space
• $K^{+}\to {\pi }^{+}\nu \bar{\nu }$: a rising star on the stage of flavour physics
• Measuring the Weak Phase gamma in Color Allowed B->DKpi Decays
• Study of Time-Dependent CP-Violating Asymmetries in b->sq q Decays
• Model independent sum rules for B-> pi K decays
• Observation of B0bar --> D0 K0bar and B0bar --> D0 K*0bar decays
• B0 -> D*- a1+: Chirality tests and resolving an ambiguity in 2β+γ
• Bayesian analysis of the constraints on gamma from B --> K pi rates and CP asymmetries in the flavour-SU(3) approach