Status of the Standard Model

Abstract

The standard model of electroweak interactions is reviewed, stressing the top quark's impact on precision tests and on determination of parameters of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix. Some opportunities for the study of CP violation in the decays of $b$-flavored mesons are mentioned, and the possibility of a new ``standard model'' sector involving neutrino masses is discussed.

Comments: 27 Pages, LaTeX, uses file world_sci.sty (appended); 10 PostScript figures (uuencoded) in separate file. August, 1994, Enrico Fermi Institute report EFI 94-38