Synopsis
Part I The Facilities.- The B Factories.- The Detectors and Collaborations.- Datataking and Monte Carlo Production summary.- Part II Tools and Methods.- Vertexing.- Analysis optimization.- Particle identification.- Flavor tagging.- Background discrimination.- B-meson reconstruction.- Mixing and time-dependent analysis.- Maximum likelihood fitting.- Angular analysis.- Dalitz analysis.- Blind analysis.- Systematic error estimation.- Part III The Results and their Interpretation.- The CKM matrix and the Kobayashi-Maskawa mechanism.- B-physics.- Quarkonium physics.- Charm physics.- Tau physics.- QED and initial state radiation studies.- Two-photon physics.- Y(5S) physics.- QCD-related physics.- Global interpretation.- Glossary.- Index.
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