▪ Abstract Our knowledge of quark-flavor physics and CP violation has increased
tremendously over the past five years. It is confirmed that the Standard Model correctly …

We present an up-to-date profile of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix with emphasis
on the interpretation of recent CP-violation results from the B factories. For this purpose, we …

A review of CP violation in the B system and strategies to determine the unitarity triangle of
the CKM matrix is given. We begin with an introduction to the description of CP violation in …

During 2011 the LHCb experiment at CERN collected 1.0 fb− 1 of s=7~TeV pp collisions.
Due to the large heavy quark production cross-sections, these data provide unprecedented …

Using the soft-collinear effective theory we derive the factorization theorem for the decays
B→ M 1 M 2 with M 1, 2= π, K, ρ, K*, at leading order in Λ/EM and Λ/mb. The results derived …

The recent observation of Bd→ π0π0 at the B factories with a surprisingly large branching
ratio represents a challenge for theory, and complements the amazingly small Bd→ π+ π …

The measured B→ π π, π K branching ratios (BRs) exhibit puzzling patterns. We point out
that the B→ π π hierarchy can be nicely accommodated in the standard model (SM) through …

The decays of B mesons to a pair of charmless pseudoscalar (P) mesons are analyzed
within a framework of flavor SU (3). Symmetry breaking is taken into account in tree (T) …

A sum rule relation is proposed for direct CP asymmetries in B→ Kπ decays. Leading terms
are identical in the isospin symmetry limit, while subleading terms are equal in the flavor SU …

The large amount of data collected so far at B factories has allowed to reach a statistical
accuracy on B decays into pairs of (pseudo) scalars at a level where electromagnetic effects …