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Part I: CP IN QUANTUM MECHANICS; 1 The meaning of discrete symmetries; 2 The discrete symmetries in quantum physics; 3 P, T, and C invariance in QED; 4 Applications of the discrete symmetries; 5 Weak and strong phases; 6 Neutral-meson systems: mixing; 7 Neutral-meson systems: decays; 8 The neutral-kaon system; 9 Heavy neutral-meson systems; 10 Experimental status of Bo-Bo mixing; Part II: CP VIOLATION IN THE STANDARD MODEL; 11 Gauge structure of the standard model; 12 The fermions in the standard model; 13 Fundamental properties of the CKM matrix; 14 Weak-basis invariants and CP violation; 15 Moduli of the CKM matrix elements; 16 Parametrizations of the CKM matrix; 17 *e; 18 Mixing in the Boq-Boq systems; 19 KL?p0??; 20 Effective Hamiltonians; 21 *e'/*e; PART III: CP VIOLATION BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL; 22 Multi-Higgs-doublet models; 23 Spontaneous CP violation; 24 Models with vector-like quarks; 25 Massive neutrinos and CP violation in the leptonic sector; 26 The left-right-symmetric model; 27 The strong CP problem; PART IV: CP VIOLATION IN B DECAYS; 28 Introduction; 29 Some experimental issues; 30 The mixing parameters; 31 Decay amplitudes: diagrammatics; 32 Decay amplitudes: effective Hamiltonian; 33 CKM phases and interference CP violation; 34 Cascade delays; 35 Some methods to extract *a; 36 Some methods to extract *g; 37 Extracting CKM phases with B0s decays; 38 Discrete ambiguities

Gustavo Castelo Branco, Instituto Superior Tecnico and Centro de Fisica das Interaccoes Fundamentais, Luis Lavoura, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa and Centro de Fisica das Interaccoes Fundamentais, Joao Paulo Silva, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa and Centro de Fisica Nuclear daUniversidade de Lisboa