Overview of the Standard Model

Abstract

A brief overview is presented of the standard model of electroweak interactions, including precision tests, the role of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix in describing CP violation, windows on intermediate-scale physics, and the nature of the Higgs phenomenon.

Comments: 16 pages, LaTeX, 3 figures (submitted separately); uses world_sci.sty (appended); epsf.tex (not included). Figures now embedded and caption to Fig. 2 replaced