Phenomenology of charmless hadronic B decays

The decays of B mesons to a pair of charmless pseudoscalar mesons (PP decays) or to a vector and pseudoscalar meson (V P decays) have been analyzed within the framework of flavor SU(3) symmetry and the Kobayashi-Maskawa mechanism of CP violation. Separate PP and V P fits proved to be successful in describing the experimental data (branching ratios, CP asymmetries and time-dependent parameters). Decay magnitudes and relative weak and strong phases have been extracted from the fits. Values of the weak phase γ were found to be consistent with the current indirect bounds from other analyses of CKM parameters.