From BaBar to LHCb, and CKMfitter. B and CP physics in charmonium and color suppressed decays. Measurements of the CKM angles β and γ

I present 10 years of research on B Physics and CP violation at the BaBar experiment at SLAC and with the phenomenological and statistical CKMfitter interpretation group of these measurements. I introduce these works in view of the perspectives of the physics potential of the LHCb experiment at CERN. Since 1998, I participated to the end of the construction of the BaBar detector, including its drift chamber and its gas system. I was also involved in the commissioning of that detector in the phase of its first operation and until the factory mode of data taking was achieved through the end of its operation in 2008. I describe the calibrations and the data studies that I have undertaken for the reconstruction and selection of electrons and the neutral particles in BaBar. I present the analyzes that I have performed on the physics of charmonium B decays that were used to observe CP violation in the B system for the first time, especially while measuring the sin(2β) parameter. Within the framework of the BaBar physics group on charmed B decays, I present measurements that I have performed on color suppressed decays, to understand the phenomenology of the disintegrations of the B mesons and to measure the CKM angle beta in 2 alternative approaches to charmonium modes. Finally I describe measurements of the CKM angle γ, by research of direct CP violation, in B-tild- to D-tild(*)K- and D-tildK*- charged modes. (author)