Beauty in the Standard Model and Beyond

TL;DR

This paper reviews how CP violation measurements in B mesons test the Standard Model and explore potential signs of New Physics, leveraging data from B factories and the Tevatron.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of CP violation in the Standard Model and discusses key experimental measurements as probes for New Physics beyond the Standard Model.

Findings

Precise measurements of the Unitarity Triangle are consistent with the Standard Model.

CP violation studies constrain possible New Physics scenarios.

Experimental data from B factories and Tevatron are crucial for these tests.

Abstract

The study of CP violation in the B system allows us to perform quantitative tests of the CP symmetry in the Standard Model. Many precise measurements of the sides and angles of the Unitarity Triangle used to test the theory are made possible by the abundant experimental data accumulated at the B factories and the Tevatron. I review the Standard Model description of CP violation and the key measurements which allow us to use CP violation studies as a probe for New Physics.