Penguins disturbed by tourists

Penguins 2002 : Penguins in K !

Gnathostomiasis Acquired by British Tourists in Botswana

Infection with Gnathostoma spinigerum has been generally confined to Southeast Asia and Central and South America. However, gnathostomiasis was recently found in British tourists who had visited Botswana. Consequently, travel to Africa should now be considered a risk factor for gnathostomiasis.

Disturbed families, or families disturbed?

Penguins 2002 : Penguins in K → ππ Decays a

This talk contains a short overview of the history of the interplay of the weak and the strong interaction and CP -violation. It describes the phenomenology and the basic physics mechanisms involved in the Standard Model calculations of K → ππ decays with an emphasis on the evaluation of Penguin operator matrix-elements. a Presented at the Symposium and Workshop ”Continuous Advances in QCD 2002...

Fat penguins and imaginary penguins in perturbative QCD

We evaluate B → Kπ decay amplitudes in perturbative QCD picture. It is found that penguin contributions are dynamically enhanced by nearly 50% compared to those assumed in the factorization approximation. It is also shown that annihilation diagrams are not negligible, and give large strong phases. Our results for branching ratios of B → Kπ decays for a representative parameter set are consisten...