CP Violation [Hardcover]

The violation of charge-conjugation and parity symmetries is a leading area of research in particle and nuclear physics, with important implications for understanding the generation of matter in the universe. CP violation occurs during the decay of the elementary particles known as kaons and the process remains little understood. This book provides a self-contained introduction to CP violation. It outlines the underlying theory and related experiments, and its systematic approach is designed to bring beginning researchers to the forefront of the field.

I: CP IN QUANTUM MECHANICS
1. The meaning of the discrete symmetries
2. The discrete symmetries in quantum physics
3. P, T, and C invariance of 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 ofB0-B0 mixing
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. Parameterizations of the CKM matrix
17. *e
18. Mixing in theB0Q-B0Q systems
19.KL?p0??
20. Effective Hamiltonians
21. *e'/*e
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
IV: CP VIOLATION INBDECAYS
28. Introduction
29. Some experimental issues
30. The mixing parameters
31. Decay amplitudes: diagrammatics
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