Uncovering CP Violation Experimental Clarification in the Neutral K Meson and B Meson Systems /
Uncovering CP Violation deals with one of the crucial ingredients necessary to create the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe. There is one force in nature which acts differently on matter and antimatter. This phenomenon was discovered in decays of neutral K mesons in 1964. In a lon...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2003.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2003. |
| Series: | Springer Tracts in Modern Physics,
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
| Summary: | Uncovering CP Violation deals with one of the crucial ingredients necessary to create the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe. There is one force in nature which acts differently on matter and antimatter. This phenomenon was discovered in decays of neutral K mesons in 1964. In a long series of ever refined experiments between 1964 and 2001, it was shown that this force emerges as a part of the weak interaction between quarks ("direct CP violation"). It is due to flavor mixing of three quark families. This picture was confirmed by experiments on neutral B mesons, which also demonstrated CP violation in 2001. The book describes the experiments that uncovered the nature of CP violation and the phenomenology describing CP violation. |
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| Physical Description: | XI, 144 p. online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9783540449164 |
| ISSN: | 0081-3869 ; |
| DOI: | 10.1007/b13589 |
