CP Violation

Parity:

W. Chinowsky and J. Steinberger, Absorption of Negative Pions in Deuterium: Parity of the Pion, Physical Review, 95, 1954.
Lee, T. D., and C. N. Yang, Question of Parity Conservation in Weak Interactions, Physical Review, 104, 1956.
Wu, C.S., Ambler, E., Hayward, R.W., D.D. Hoppes, and Hudson, R.P., Experimental test of parity conservation in beta decay, Physical Review, 105(4), 1957.
Garwin, R.L., Lederman, L.M., Weinrich, M., Observations of the failure of conservation of parity and charge conjugation in meson decays : the magnetic moment of the free muon, Physical Review, 105(4), 1957.
R. Plano, A. Prodell*, N. Samios*, M. Schwartz, and J. Steinberger, Parity of the Neutral Pion Physical Review Letters, 3, 1959

Charge(Parity) Conjugation and Strange Decays:

Pais, A. Some Remarks on the V-Particles Physical Review, 86, 1952
Gell-Mann, M., and Pais, A., Behavior of Neutral Particles under Charge Conjugation Physical Review, 97, 1955
Lederman et al Observation of Long-Lived Neutral V Particles Physical Review, 103, 1956
CP-Lear A determination of the CP violation parameter η+− from the decay of strangeness-tagged neutral kaons Physical Letters B, 458, 1999

Rare Strange decays, FCNC, Charm:

S. L. Glashow, J. Iliopoulos, and L. Maiani, Weak Interactions with Lepton-Hadron Symmetry Physical Review D2, 1970
M. K. Gaillard and Benjamin W. Lee, Rare decay modes of the K mesons in gauge theories Physical Review D10, 1974
L. M. Lederman et al, Observation of Massive Muon Pairs in Hadron Collisions Physical Review Letters 25,1970
J. J. Aubert et al, Experimental Observation of a Heavy Particle J Physical Review Letters 33,1974
J. -E. Augustin et al, Discovery of a Narrow Resonance in e+e- Annihilation Physical Review Letters 33,1974

Time reversal:

P. K. Kabir, What Is Not Invariant under Time Reversal? Physical Review D2, 1970

Charge-Parity Violation:

J. H. Christenson, J. W. Cronin, V. L. Fitch, and R. Turlay, Evidence for the 2pi Decay of the K20 Meson Physical Review Letters, 13, 1964

Discovery b-quark:

Fermilab page on the discovery of the beauty quark Fermilab
L. Lederman, C. Brown, Fermilab news release, 1977
L. Lederman et al Observation of a Dimuon Resonance at 9.5 GeV in 400 GeV Proton-Nucleus Collisions Physical Review Letters, 39, 1977

Quark-Mixing:

Cabibbo, N., Unitary Symmetry and Leptonic Decays, Physical Review Letters, 10, 1963.
Kobayashi, M., and Maskawa, T. CP violation in the renormalizable theory of weak interaction, Prog.Theor.Phys, 49, 652, 1973.
Wolgenstein, L., Parameterization of the Kobayashi-Maskawa Matrix, Physical Review Letters, 511983.
H. Albrecht et al. [ARGUS Collaboration], Phys. Lett. B 192, 245 (1987) Spires, KEK library scanned version

Isospin analysis

Gronau, M., and London, D. Isospin analysis of CP asymmetries in B decays, Physical Review Letters, 65, 1990,
Lipkin, H., Nir, Y., Quin, H. and Snyder, A. Penguin trapping with isospin analysis and CP asymmetries in B decays Physical Review D, 44,1991
Grossman, Y., and Quin, H. Bounding the effect of penguin diagrams in a_CP(B to pipi), Physical Review D, 58, 1998, hep-ph/9712306
Gronau, M. and Wyler, D. On determining a weak phase from charged B decay asymmetries Physics Letters B265, 1991

Measuring gamma with charged B decays

Gronau, M., and Wyler, D. On determining a weak phase from charged B decay asymmetries Physics Letters B265, 1991
Gronau, M., and London, D. How to determine all the angles of the unitarity triangle from Bd --> DKs and Bs0 --> Dsh Physics Letters B253 483 (1991)
Atwood, D., Dunietz, I. and Soni, A. Enhanced CP Violation with B-->K D0(D0bar) Modes and Extraction of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Anglgamma Phys. Rev. Lett. 78 3257 (1997) hep-ph/9612433
Atwood, D., Dunietz, I. and Soni, A. Improved Methods for Observing CP Violation in B+/- --> K+/- D0 and Measuring the CKM Phase gamma Phys. Rev. D. 63 (2001) hep-ph/0008090

Reviews:

Ashton B. Carter and A. I. Sanda, CP violation in B-meson decays, Physical Review D23, 1981.
Tatsuya Nakada, Review on CP Violation, hep-ph/9312290
Jeffrey D. Richman and Patricia R. Burchat, Leptonic and semileptonic decays of charm and bottom hadrons Rev. Mod. Phys. 67, 893 (1995)
Bigi, I., CP Violation -- An essential mystery in Nature's Grand Design, hep-ph/9712475, lecture notes for XXV ITEP Winterschool of Physucs and the Enrico Fermi international school of physics, published in Surveys High Energ.Phys. 12 (1998) 269-336
Jeff Richman, Heavy Quark Physics and CP violation Lecture Notes Les Houches Summer School 1998
Nir, Y., CP Violation in and beyond the Standard Model, SLAC Summer Institute, 1999
Tatsuya Nakada, Physics of CP Violation and Rare Decays, hep-ex/0002039, Lecture notes for Cargese 99 summer school
Yosef Nir CP Violation -- A New Era hep-ph/0109090, Lectures given at the 55th Scottish Universities Summer School, St. Andrews, 2001
Helen Quinn, B Physics and CP Violation hep-ph/0111177, Lectures given at the ICTP Particle Physics School, Trieste, 2001
Ligeti, Z., Introduction to Heavy Meson Decays and CP Asymmetries, hep-ph/0302031, SLAC Summer Institute, eConf C020805 (2002) L02
Buras, A.J., Flavour Physics and CP violation, CERN Report 2006-003, 94Proceedings of the 2004 European School of High-Energy Physics
BaBar Collaboration, BaBar Physics Book, SLAC-R-504
Gershon, T., Status and Prospects for Measurements of $\phi_3$ from $B \to D X$ Decays, hep-ph/0307020, CKM'03, Durham
Ligeti, Z. and Hoecker, A. CP Violation and the CKM Matrix, Annual Review of Nucl. and Particle Science, Vol 56: 501-567

Particle Data Group Reviews (W.-M. Yao et al., Journal of Physics G 33, 1 (2006)):

Wolfenstein, L. CP violation in KL decays, PDG review
Schneider, O. B0-B0bar mixing, PDG review
Ceccucci, A., Ligeti, Z., and Sakai, Y. The CKM quark mixing matrix, PDG review
Kirkby, D., and Nir, Y., CP violation in meson decays, PDG review

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