Theoretical Overview of CP Violation in B-Meson Decay

Abstract

After a brief look at CP violation in kaon decays, a short overview of CP violation in the $B$-meson system and of strategies to determine the angles of the unitarity triangles of the CKM matrix is given. Both general aspects and some recent developments are discussed, including $B_c^{\pm }\to D_s^{\pm }D$ and $B\to \pi K$ decays, as well as the $B_d\to {\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}$, $B_s\to K^{+}{K}^{-}$ system.

Comments: 12 pages, LaTeX, 1 figure. Invited plenary talk given at MESON 2000, Cracow, Poland, 19-23 May 2000. To appear in the Proceedings