Flavor physics for the millennium: TASI 2000: Boulder, Colorado, US, 4-30 June 2000, Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics

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This book is devoted to the broad subject of flavor physics, embracing the question of what distinguishes one type of elementary particles from another. The articles range from the forefront of formal theory (treating the physics of extra dimensions) to details of particle detectors. Although special emphasis is placed on the physics of kaons, charmed and beauty particles, top quarks, and neutrinos, the articles also dealing with electroweak physics, quantum chromodynamics, supersymmetry, and dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking. Violations of fundamental symmetries such as time reversal invariance are discussed in the context of neutral kaons, beauty particles, electric dipole moments, and parity violation in atoms. The physics of the Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix and of quark masses are described in some detail, both from the standpoint of present and future experimental knowledge and from a more fundamental viewpoint, where physicists are still searching for the correct theory.  Read more... Abstract: This book is devoted to the broad subject of flavor physics, embracing the question of what distinguishes one type of elementary particles from another. The articles range from the forefront of formal theory (treating the physics of extra dimensions) to details of particle detectors. Although special emphasis is placed on the physics of kaons, charmed and beauty particles, top quarks, and neutrinos, the articles also dealing with electroweak physics, quantum chromodynamics, supersymmetry, and dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking. Violations of fundamental symmetries such as time reversal invariance are discussed in the context of neutral kaons, beauty particles, electric dipole moments, and parity violation in atoms. The physics of the Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix and of quark masses are described in some detail, both from the standpoint of present and future experimental knowledge and from a more fundamental viewpoint, where physicists are still searching for the correct theory Content: The electroweak theory / Chris Quigg -- CP violation / Lincoln Wolfenstein -- Precision electroweak physics / Young-Kee Kim -- Kaon and charm physics: Theory / G. Buchalla -- Kaon physics: Experiments / A. R. Barker -- The status of mixing in the charm sector / J. P. Cumalat -- Basics of QCD perturbation theory / Davison E. Soper -- Lattice QCD and the CKM matrix / Thomas De Grand -- The strong CP problem / Michael Dine -- A bibliography of atomic parity violation and electric dipole moment experiments / Carl E. Wieman -- The CKM matrix and the heavy quark expansion / Adam F. Falk -- CP violation in B decays / Jonathan L. Rosner -- Lectures on the theory of nonleptonic B decays / Matthias Neubert -- Asymmetric e+e- colliders / Aaron Roodman -- Pathological science / Sheldon Stone -- Top physics / Elizabeth H. Simmons -- Neutrino mass, mixing, and oscillation / B. Kayser -- Flavor in supersymmetry / Hitoshi Murayama -- Technicolor and compositeness / R. Sekhar Chivukula -- Models of fermion masses / Graham G. Ross -- Physics of extra dimensions / Joseph D. Lykken.