Friday, April 8, 2005, 16:00
WHGA Auditorium
A. Ali, DESY Hamburg
Abstract:
A wealth of data has come out of the two B-meson factories operating at
SLAC and KEK. In addition, the experiments CDF and D0, operating at the
Fermilab Tevatron, are contributing to precise measurements in B
physics. This experimental activity is matched by theoretical progress
with the heavy quark effective theory, perturbative QCD, and lattice-QCD
techniques at the forefront. In my review, I will summarize salient
features of these developments and compare the state-of-the-art theory
and experiment. Precise determination of the CKM matrix elements,
including the CP-violating phases of the CKM unitarity triangle, and
flavour-changing-neutral-current effects in B physics will be the
principal topics of my talk.