Measurements of CKM Elements and the Unitarity Triangle

Abstract

In this presentation, I review the status of selected Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements and their role in the Unitarity Triangle (UT). Since this conference concluded, many new results have been finalized and are included in the new world averages (WAs) in the 2002 edition of the PDG. I will focus here on some outstanding issues in the measurements of the CKM elements in the third row and column.

Comments: Invited talk at the XXII Physics in Collisions Conference (PIC02), Stanford, CA, USA, June 2002, 10 pages, LaTeX, 0 figures. PSN THAT04