CP violation in non-leptonic B decays as a portal to New Physics

Abstract

CP violation offers a powerful probe for testing the Standard Model. In this endeavour, non-leptonic decays of B mesons play a key role. I will discuss benchmark decays and puzzling patterns emerging from theoretical analyses of the current data.

Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures, invited plenary talk at the 7th Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries (DISCRETE 2020-2021), 29th November - 3rd December 2021, Bergen, Norway, to appear in the Proceedings