Weak Decays, Quark Mixing and CP Violation: Theory Overview

Abstract

A brief overview of flavour-changing phenomena is presented. The main topics discussed are the universality and Lorentz structure of the leptonic charged-current couplings, our present knowledge of the quark-mixing matrix and the future prospects for CP--violation studies.

Comments: 10 pages, latex, 5 Postscript figures, uses espcrc2.sty Invited talk at the XVI International Workshop on Weak Interactions and Neutrinos (WIN'97), Capri, June 1997