CKM Overview and Determinations from B Decays

Abstract

This talk gives an introduction to the Standard Model Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix and methods to extract information on the parameters of the unitarity triangle from B decays.

Comments: Contributed to XXXXth Rencontres de Moriond on Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories, La Thuile, March 5-12 2005