CP violation (International Series of Monographs on Physics ; 103)

Contents: 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 of B[superscript 0]-[actual symbol not reproducible]B[superscript 0] 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. Parametrizations of the CKM matrix. 17. [epsilon]. 18. Mixing in the B[superscript 0][subscript q]-[actual symbol not reproducible]B[superscript 0][subscript q] systems. 19. K[subscript L][approaches][pi][superscript 0][nu][actual symbol not reproducible][nu]. 20. Effective Hamiltonians. 21. [epsilon[superscript 1]]/[epsilon] -- 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 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 decays. 35. Some methods to extract [alpha]. 36. Some methods to extract [gamma]. 37. Extracting CKM phases with B[subscript 8][superscript 0] decays. 38. Discrete ambiguities -- A. Two notes on CP-transformation phases -- B. Effective Hamiltonian for ... xxi, 511 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. First edition, first printing. Blue cloth boards, slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.