B Decays
B Decays

Author: Sheldon Stone

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 676

ISBN-13: 9789810218362

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This 2nd edition is an extensive update of "B Decays?. The revisions are necessary because of the extensive amount of new data and new theoretical ideas. This book reviews what is known about b-quark decays and also looks at what can be learned in the future.The importance of this research area is increasing, as evidenced by the approval of the luminosity upgrade for CESR and the asymmetric B factories at SLAC and KEK, and the possibility of experiments at hadron colliders.The key experimental observations made thus far, measurement of the lifetimes of the different B species, B0-B0 mixing, the discovery of ?Penguin? mediated decays, and the extraction of the CKM matrix elements Vub and Vcb from semileptonic decays, as well as more mundane results, are described in great detail by the experimentalists who have been closely involved with making the measurements. Theoretical progress in understanding b-quark decays using HQET and lattice gauge techniques are described by theorists who have developed and used these techniques.Synthesizing the experimental and theoretical information, several articles discuss the implications for the ?Standard Model? and how further tests can be done using measurements of CP violation in the B system.

CP Violation: From Quarks to Leptons
CP Violation: From Quarks to Leptons

Author: M. Giorgi

Publisher: IOS Press

Published: 2006-07-25

Total Pages: 613

ISBN-13: 1614990190

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For a long time after the discovery in 1964, by Christenson, Cronin, Fitch and Turlay, that the long-lived neutral kaon decays both into three and into two pions, which has since been taken as proof of CP violation, successive new and more precise experiments confirmed the original evidence and provided results compatible with a phenomenological description confining the CP violation to the mixing between neutral kaons and antikaons. However the Standard Model, with three generations of quarks, linking as it does CP violation to the presence of a single non trivial phase in the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa quark mixing matrix, implies that if CP violation exists at all, then it is a general property of weak interactions, appearing in transitions were amplitudes involving all three quark families interfere with each other, producing effects with a magnitude related to that of the CKM coefficients. This fact has stimulated an impressive amount of theoretical work leading in many cases to precise predictions. This publication reviews the field, from both the theoretical and experimental point of view, while planning for the forthcoming experimentation at LHC and considering possible new facilities for kaon, B meson and neutrino physics. Abstracted in Inspec

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on B Physics and CP Violation
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on B Physics and CP Violation

Author: Hai-Yang Cheng

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 9789810243760

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Proceedings of the Third International Conference on B Physics and CP Violation, held in Taipei, Taiwan, December 3-7, 1999. The main focus of the conference was to discuss the state of the art and future prospects of the field, at a high technical level. The fifth conference is to be held in May 2002 in Philadelphia. The Fourth took place in Central Japan in February 2001.zation.

EPS - High Energy Physics '89
EPS - High Energy Physics '89

Author: R. Fernandez Alvarez-Estrada

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2016-06-03

Total Pages: 729

ISBN-13: 1483257290

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EPS - High Energy Physics '89 presents the proceeding of the International Europhysics Conference on High Energy physics, held in Madrid, Spain, on September 6–13, 1989. This book outlines several topics on the interface between cosmology/astrophysics and particle physics. Organized into two parts encompassing 181 chapters, this compilation of papers begins with an overview of the implications of the cosmic light element abundances. This text then examines the various aspects of lattice field theory. Other chapters consider the theoretical evidence of a fundamental length in string theory and outline the main features of the higher order corrections to the heavy quark inclusive cross section. This book discusses as well the theory of heavy quark production in hadron collision. The final chapter deals with the idea of low-energy supersymmetry, which relates the scale of supersymmetry breaking to the origin and stability of the electroweak scale. This book is a valuable resource for astrophysicists, physicists, and scientists.

Proceedings of the Workshop on CP Violation
Proceedings of the Workshop on CP Violation

Author: Xin-Heng Guo

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9789810239442

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CP violation is essential to understanding the universe in which we live. Without it there can be no dominance of matter over anti-matter. New experimental facilities, such as the B-factories, and new experimental techniques promise the first real advances in our understanding of this phenomenon since its discovery in the mid-60's. The Workshop on CP violation brought together representatives of all the major experimental collaborations and key theorists. The result is an excellent introduction to the directions in which the field will move in the next few years.

B Physics And Cp Violation: Bcp4 - Proceedings Of The International Workshop
B Physics And Cp Violation: Bcp4 - Proceedings Of The International Workshop

Author: T Ohshima

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2001-09-25

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9814490776

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This book offers the first strong evidence of the existence of CP violation in neutral B decays extracted from sophisticated B factories in the US and Japan. It also holds out the expectation of rare B decays and D, K physics in the near future. In addition, new physics beyond the Standard Model is described. Both experimental and theoretical points of view are given.

CP Violation
CP Violation

Author: L. Wolfenstein

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2012-12-02

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 0444596089

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The articles collected in this volume are mainly concerned with the phenomenological description of the 1964 discovery on K° decay that CP invariance was violated in nature. The variety of models developed to explain this CP violation are described together with reprints of more recent definitive experiments, and CP violation in the B° system and the electric dipole moment of the neutron is also covered.

Top Quark, Heavy Flavor Physics And Symmetry Breaking, The - Proceedings Of The Xxiii International Meeting On Fundamental Physics
Top Quark, Heavy Flavor Physics And Symmetry Breaking, The - Proceedings Of The Xxiii International Meeting On Fundamental Physics

Author: Teresa Rodrigo

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1996-03-31

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9814548847

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This meeting discussed the experimental results and theoretical aspects in the field of high energy physics, with special reference to the top quark observation, heavy flavor physics and symmetry-breaking mechanisms. The major topics are developed in a series of course lectures.

Searches for CP Violation in Charmed Meson Decays
Searches for CP Violation in Charmed Meson Decays

Author: Hamish Gordon

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-06-07

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 3319070673

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Our current understanding of the fundamental building blocks of the Universe, summarised by the Standard Model of particle physics, is incomplete. For example, it fails to explain why we do not see equal, or almost equal, numbers of particles and their antiparticle partners. To explain this asymmetry requires, among other effects, a mechanism known as charge-parity (CP) violation that causes differences between the rates at which particles and antiparticles decay. CP violation is seen in systems containing bottom and strange quarks, but not in those with up, charm or top quarks. This thesis describes searches for particle-antiparticle asymmetries in the decay rates of charmed mesons. No evidence of CP violation is found. With current sensitivities, an asymmetry large enough to observe probably could not be explained by the Standard Model. Instead an explanation could come from new physics, for example contributions from supersymmetric or other undiscovered heavy particles. In the thesis, the development of new techniques to search for these asymmetries is described. They are applied to data from the LHCb experiment at CERN to make precise measurements of asymmetries in the D^+->K^-K^+pi^+ decay channel. This is the most promising charged D decay for CP violation searches.