Theoretical Review of CP Violation

Abstract

The focus of our considerations is the B-meson system, which will provide stringent tests of the Kobayashi-Maskawa mechanism of CP violation in this decade. After a classification of the main possible strategies to achieve this goal, we discuss the status of the B-factory benchmark modes in view of the current experimental data. We shall then turn to the "El Dorado" for B-decay studies at hadron colliders, the Bs-meson system, where we will also address new, theoretically clean strategies to explore CP violation.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, invited talk at the International Workshop on QCD: QCD@Work 2003 - Conversano (Italy) 14-18 June 2003 (eConf C030614