edited by A J Buras (Technischen Universität München) & M Lindner (Technischen Universität München)

This volume is a collection of review articles on the most outstanding topics in heavy flavour physics. All the authors have made significant contributions to this field. The book reviews in detail the theoretical structure of heavy flavour physics and confronts the Standard Model and some of its extensions with existing experimental data.

This new edition covers new trends and ideas and includes the latest experimental information. Compared to the previous edition interesting new activities are included and some of the key contributions are updated. Particular attention is paid to the discovery of the top quark and the determination of its mass.

• Electroweak Radiation Corrections After the Top Quark Discovery (W Hollik)
• Quark Mixing, CP Violation and Rare Decays After the Top Quark Discovery (A J Buras & R Fleischer)
• B Decays and the Heavy-Quark Expansion (M Neubert)
• Non-leptonic Weak Decays of B Mesons (M Neubert & B Stech)
• QCD Sum Rules for Exclusive Decays of Heavy Mesons (A Khodjamirian & R Rückl)
• Heavy Quark Physics from Lattice QCD (J M Flynn & C T Sachrajda)
• Tau Physics (A Pich)
• Heavy Flavors in High Energy Electron–Positron Collisions (J H Kühn & P M Zerwas)
• Heavy-Quark Production (S Frixione et al.)
• Dynamical Electro-weak Symmetry Breaking with a Standard Model Limit (M Lindner & E Schnapka)
• C P Violation Beyond the Standard Model (Y Grossman et al.)
• Supersymmetry and FCNC Effects (M Misiak et al.)
• and other papers