2000/09/04 by I. I. Bigi, Bigi, I. I.
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0009021
21 pages, LaTex, Plenary Talk given at ICHEP2000, July 27 - August 2, 2000, Osaka, Japan; some typos and references corrected
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After pointing out the amazing success of the CKM description in accommodating the phenomenology of flavour changing neutral currents I review the status of theoretical technologies for extracting CKM parameters from data. I sketch novel directions, namely attempts to deal with quark-hadron duality in a (semi)quantitative way and to develop a QCD description of two-body modes of B mesons. After commenting on predictions for ε′/ε and CP asymmetries in B decays I address indirect probes for New Physics in D0 oscillations and CP violation, in Kμ3 decays and electric dipole moments. I describe in which way searching for New Physics in B decays provides an exciting adventure with novel challenges not encountered before.