Recent Developments on the CKM Matrix

Wei Wang

Published 2014-07-25, updated 2014-08-05Version 2

In Standard Model, CP violation arises from an irreducible complex phase in the quark mixing matrix, now under the name Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix. This description has shown remarkably overall agreement with various experimental measurements. In this review, we discuss recent experimental data and theoretical developments on three quantities of CKM matrix that are most uncertain: the $V_{ub}$, including its magnitude and the phase $\gamma$ in standard parametrization, and the $B_s-\bar B_s$ mixing phase $\beta_s$.