Yosef Nir
Published 1999-11-11, updated 1999-11-23Version 2
The special features of CP violation in the Standard Model are presented. The significance of measuring CP violation in B, K and D decays is explained. The predictions of the Standard Model for CP asymmetries in B decays are analyzed in detail. Then, four frameworks of new physics are reviewed: (i) Supersymmetry provides an excellent demonstration of the power of CP violation as a probe of new physics. (ii) Left-right symmetric models are discussed as an example of an extension of the gauge sector. CP violation suggests that the scale of LRS breaking is low. (iii) The variety of extensions of the scalar sector are presented and their unique CP violating signatures are emphasized. (iv) Vector-like down quarks are presented as an example of an extension of the fermion sector. Their implications for CP asymmetries in B decays are highly interesting.
Comments: 85 pages, harvmac, Lectures given in the XXVII SLAC Summer Institute on Particle Physics, July 7 - 16, 1999. v2: references added
New Physics in CP Asymmetries and Rare B Decays
CP Violation Beyond the Standard Model
SU(3) Predictions of $B\to PP$ Decays in the Standard Model
