Beauty97 conference summary

Abstract

CP-violation is one of the least understood phenomena in our field. There are major experimental programs in all high energy laboratories around the world which will hopefully remedy this within the next decade. The study of CP-violating effects in B meson decays will allow stringent tests of the Standard Model to be made and may point the way to New Physics.The Beauty97 conference provided a forum for these experiments to discuss their physics potential and experimental challenges relating to these studies. This paper reviews the ongoing and future experimental B-physics projects. I will summarize the status and future plans of these projects, as well as the highlights of the physics and key R&D results presented at the conference. At the end, a critical comparison of the CP-violation B experiments will be given.