CP Violation: The CKM Matrix and New Physics

Abstract

Recent measurements of CP violating asymmetries have led to a significant progress in our understanding of CP violation. The implications of the experimental results for the Kobayashi-Maskawa mechanism and for new physics are explained.

Comments: 16 pages, 14 postscript figures, uses espcrc2.sty; Plenary talk given at the 31st international conference on high energy physics (ICHEP 2002), Amsterdam, 24-31 July 2002. v2: Typos (signs) in eqs. 27, 28 corrected; v3: Reference for the measurement of B to D*D* (eq. 31) corrected