Flavour Symmetry and Clean Strategies to Extract $\gamma$

Abstract

One of the key elements in the testing of the Standard-Model description of CP violation through $B$-meson decays is the direct determination of the angle $\gamma$ of the unitarity triangle in a variety of ways. We give a brief overview of the implications of the current $B$-factory data for flavour-symmetry strategies, and discuss new, theoretically clean methods employing pure tree decays of neutral $B_{d,s}$ mesons.