CP VIOLATION ISMP 103 P - Branco, Lavoura Silva

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Résumé :
This is an open access title. It is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International licence. It is available to read and download as a PDF version on the Oxford Academic platform. CP violation is an intriguing and elusive subject, and current knowledge of it remains limited, on both the experimental and theoretical levels. Researchers lack a fundamental understanding of its origin, and this is all the more important because CP violation is related to the generation problem and mass problem, two of the basic open questions in particle physics. This book provides beginning researchers with a self-contained introduction to the subject, starting at an elementary level and taking the reader to the forefront of current research....

Biographie:

• Part I: CP IN QUANTUM MECHANICS


• 1: The meaning of discrete symmetries


• 2: The discrete symmetries in quantum physics


• 3: P, T, and C invariance in QED


• 4: Applications of the discrete symmetries


• 5: Weak and strong phases


• 6: Neutral-meson systems: mixing


• 7: Neutral-meson systems: decays


• 8: The neutral-kaon system


• 9: Heavy neutral-meson systems


• 10: Experimental status of B??-B?? mixing


• Part II: CP VIOLATION IN THE STANDARD MODEL


• 11: Gauge structure of the standard model


• 12: The fermions in the standard model


• 13: Fundamental properties of the CKM matrix


• 14: Weak-basis invariants and CP violation


• 15: Moduli of the CKM matrix elements


• 16: Parametrizations of the CKM matrix


• 17: *e


• 18: Mixing in the B??q-B??q systems


• 19: KL?p0??


• 20: Effective Hamiltonians


• 21: *e'/*e


• PART III: CP VIOLATION BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL


• 22: Multi-Higgs-doublet models


• 23: Spontaneous CP violation


• 24: Models with vector-like quarks


• 25: Massive neutrinos and CP violation in the leptonic sector


• 26: The left-right-symmetric model


• 27: The strong CP problem


• PART IV: CP VIOLATION IN B DECAYS


• 28: Introduction


• 29: Some experimental issues


• 30: The mixing parameters


• 31: Decay amplitudes: diagrammatics


• 32: Decay amplitudes: effective Hamiltonian


• 33: CKM phases and interference CP violation


• 34: Cascade delays


• 35: Some methods to extract *a


• 36: Some methods to extract *g


• 37: Extracting CKM phases with B0s decays


• 38: Discrete ambiguities