CP Violation in B -> pi K Decays

Abstract

I briefly review CP violation in the B system, concentrating on B -> pi K decays. I discuss how to deal with electroweak-penguin contributions to these decays using flavour SU(3). With these, I show that the entire unitarity triangle can be extracted from measurements of B -> pi K decays. Finally, I examine the signals for new physics in these decays and the possibilities for measuring them.

Comments: 8 pages, no figure, plain latex, To be published in the proceedings of MRST 2004: From Quarks to Cosmology, Concordia University, Montreal, May 2004, references added