Flavor physics for the millennium : TASI 2000 : Boulder, Colorado, US, 4-30 June 2000 / Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics ; editor, Jonathan L. Rosner.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Rosner, Jonathan L.

Conference Name:

Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics (2000 : Boulder, Colo.)

Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Particles (Nuclear physics)--Flavor--Congresses.

Particles (Nuclear physics).

Nuclear physics--Congresses.

Nuclear physics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (883 p.)

Other Title:

TASI 2000

Also known as: TASI proceedings 2000

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 in

Contents:

Foreword; CONTENTS; The Electroweak Theory; 1 Introduction; 2 Antecedents of the Electroweak Theory; 3 The SU(2)L (x) U(1)Y Electroweak Theory; 4 Precision Tests of the Electroweak Theory; 5 The Higgs Boson; 6 The electroweak scale and beyond; 7 Outlook; CP Violation; 1 Introduction; 2 The Standard Model vs Superweak; 3 Time Reversal Violation; Precision Electroweak Physics; 1 Introduction; 2 Survey of Accelerators and Detectors; 3 Precision Electroweak Measurements; 4 Search of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking; 5 Future Prospects; Kaon and Charm Physics: Theory; 1 Preface

2 Kaons: Introduction and Overview3 Theoretical Methods in Weak Decays; 4 The Neutral-K System and CP Violation; 5 Rare K Decays; 6 Flavour Physics with Charm; 7 Summary and Outlook; Kaon Physics: Experiments; 1 Overview; 2 Experiments Measuring e'/e; 3 Rare Kaon Decay Experiments; 4 Conclusions and Future Prospects; The Status of Mixing in the Charm Sector; 1 GIM Suppression; 2 Charm Mixing; 3 Wrong Sign Mixing Searches; 4 Lifetime Difference Searches; 5 Summary; Basics of QCD Perturbation Theory; 1 Introduction; 2 Electron-positron annihilation and jets; 3 The smallest time scales

4 Deeply inelastic scattering5 QCD in hadron-hadron collisions; 6 Epilogue; Lattice QCD and the CKM Matrix; 1 Introduction; 2 Basics of Lattice QCD; 3 Hadronic Matrix Elements from the Lattice; 4 Conclusions; The Strong CP Problem; 1 Introduction; 2 A Two Dimensional Detour; 3 Real QCD; 4 The Strong CP Problem; 5 Possible Solutions; 6 The Axion in Cosmology; 7 Conclusions: Outlook; A Bibliography of Atomic Parity Violation and Electric Dipole Moment Experiments; Electric dipole moments of atoms and neutrons; Atomic parity violation; The CKM Matrix and the Heavy Quark Expansion

1 Heavy Quark Symmetry2 Effective Field Theories; 3 Heavy Quark Effective Theory; 4 Exclusive B Decays; 5 Inclusive B Decays; 6 Concluding Remarks; CP Violation in B Decays; 1 Introduction; 2 Discovery of the b quark; 3 The known B hadrons; 4 Interactions of the b quark; 5 Mixing of neutral B mesons; 6 CP violation; 7 Decays to CP-noneigenstates; 8 Flavor tagging; 9 The strange B; 10 B decays to pairs of light mesons; 11 The role of penguins; 12 Final-state interactions; 13 Topics not covered in detail; 14 What if the CKM picture doesn't work?; 15 Summary

Lectures on the Theory of Nonleptonic B Decays1 Introduction; 2 Statement of the factorization formula; 3 Arguments for factorization; 4 B->DTT: Factorization at one-loop order; 5 Power-suppressed contributions; 6 Limitations of the factorization approach; 7 Phenomenology of B->D(*)L decays; 8 Conclusion; Asymmetric e+e- Colliders; 1 Scope of these notes; 2 Introduction to Asymmetric Colliders; 3 Measurement of sin 2B; 4 Blind Analysis; 5 Conclusion; Pathological Science; 1 Introduction; 2 Davis-Barnes Effect; 3 N-rays; 4 Symptoms of Pathological Science; 5 The Split A2 Meson Resonance

6 The R S T and U Bosons

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786611960582

9781281960580

1281960586

9789812811509

9812811508