CP Violation: Past, Present, and Future

Abstract

We discuss the history of CP violation and its manifestations in kaon physics, its explanation in terms of phases of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix describing charge-changing weak quark transitions, predictions for experiments involving $B$ mesons, and the light it can shed on physics beyond the Standard Model.Comment: 13 pages, LaTeX, 8 figures, Invited talk presented at XXI Brazilian National Meeting on Particles and Fields, Sao Lourenco, Minas Gerais, October 23--26, 2000, proceedings to be published in a special issue of the Brazilian Journal of Physics. Further small changes in two figure captions and acknowledgment