CP Violation in B Decays

Abstract

The role of B decays in the study of CP violation is reviewed. We treat the interactions and spectroscopy of the $b$ quark and then introduce CP violation in $B$ meson decays, including time-dependences, decays to CP eigenstates and non-eigenstates, and flavor tagging. Additional topics include studies of strange $B$'s, decays to pairs of light pseudoscalar mesons, and the roles of gluonic and electroweak penguin diagrams, and final-state interactions.

Comments: 50 pages, LaTeX, 11 figures, to be published in Lecture Notes of TASI-2000, edited by Jonathan L. Rosner, World Scientific, 2001. Some references and experimental results updated