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Boris Kayser

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arXiv1997

Cascade Mixing and the CP-Violating Angle Beta

In the decay chain B(d) --> Psi + K --> Psi + (pi l nu), neutral K mixing follows on the heels of neutral B mixing. This "cascade mixing" leads to an interference which probes cos(2*beta), where beta is one of the three CP-violating phase angles which characterize CP violation in the Standard Model. Widely-discussed future B-system experiments will determine trigonometric functions of these three phase angles, leaving the underlying angles themselves discretely ambiguous. A determination of cos(2*beta) through cascade mixing would eliminate all the discrete ambiguities entirely.

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arXiv1997

The Role of the Vacuum Insertion Approximation in Calculating CP Asymmetries in B Decays

CP asymmetries in $B$ decays into final CP eigenstates are in many cases theoretically clean. In particular, they do not depend on the values of hadronic parameters. The sign of the asymmetries, however, does depend on the sign of the $B_B$ parameter. Furthermore, the information from $ε_K$ that all angles of the unitarity triangles lie in the range $\{0,π\}$ depends on the sign of the $B_K$ parameter. Consequently, in the (unlikely) case that the vacuum insertion approximation is such a poor approximation that either $B_B$ or $B_K$ is negative, the sign of CP asymmetries in neutral $B$ decays will be opposite to the standard predictions. Various subtleties concerning the role of $K-\bar K$ mixing in the case of final states with a single $K_S$ or $K_L$, such as the $B\toψK_S$ decay, are clarified.

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arXiv1997

CP Violation, Mixing, and Quantum Mechanics

We discuss the quantum mechanics of B-factory experiments, and that of neutral K or B decay. Predictions for the processes to be studied at the B factories can be made through an approach based on amplitudes, rather than on wave functions. This approach avoids the puzzles of the "collapse of the wave function." In the treatment of the decay of a neutral K or B, the contributions of the different mass eigenstate components of the decaying particle must be evaluated at exactly the same spacetime point. Otherwise, the frequency predicted for the oscillation of the decay rate may be incorrect.

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arXiv1997

CP Violation in the K and B Systems

Although CP violation was discovered more than thirty years ago, its origin is still unknown. In these lectures, we describe the CP-violating effects which have been seen in K decays, and explain how CP violation can be caused by the Standard Model weak interaction. The hypothesis that this interaction is indeed the origin of CP violation will be incisively tested by future experiments on B and K decays. We explain what quantities these experiments will try to determine, and how they will be able to determine them in a theoretically clean way. To clarify the physics of the K system, we give a phase-convention-free description of CP violation in this system. We conclude by briefly exploring whether electric dipole moments actually violate CP even if CPT invariance is not assumed.

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arXiv1995

CP Violation and Quantum Mechanics in the B System

We discuss the testing of the Standard Model of CP violation, and the search for CP-violating effects from beyond the Standard Model, in $B$ decays. We then focus on the quantum mechanics of the experiments on CP violation to be performed at $B$ factories. These experiments will involve very pretty Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations. We show that the physics of these experiments can be understood without invoking the ``collapse of the wave function," and without the mysteries that sometimes accompany discussions of EPR effects. (To appear in the Proceedings of the Moriond Workshop on Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories, Les Arcs, France, March 1995)

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