New Physics and the Unitarity Triangle

Abstract

After reviewing the present experimental constraints on the unitarity triangle, I discuss the various ways in which new physics can manifest itself in measurements of the parameters of the unitarity triangle. Apart from one exception, which I describe, new physics enters principally through new contributions to B0-B0(bar) mixing. Different models of new physics can be partially distinguished by looking at their effects on rare, flavour-changing $B$ penguin decays. (Invited talk given at the Symposium Twenty Beautiful Years of Bottom Physics, Chicago, IL, USA, June 29 -- July 2, 1997.)

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