NEW ERA FOR CP ASYMMETRIES: AXIONS AND RARE DECAYS OF HADRONS AND LEPTONS

This book is dedicated to Lev Okun, who passed away in November 2015. He was a true pioneer in probing fundamental dynamics.The book has two objectives: First is to showcase Okun's impact for decades since 1963, when he published his remarkable book Weak Interaction of Elementary Particles. Second is to present the current progress of our community in the studies of our Universe consisting of 4.5% of known matter and 26.5% dark matter in the Standard Cosmological Model.This is suitable for readers who know quantum mechanics and quantum field theories in general.