Uncovering CP Violation
Subtitle: Experimental Clarification in the Neutral K Meson and B Meson Systems (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: January 12, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9783540403333
Subjects: Particle & high-energy physics; Quantum Theory; Science; Science/Mathematics; Nuclear Physics; Physics; Science / Nuclear Physics; CP violation (Nuclear physics)
First sentence: One of the surprising facts in our present understanding of the development of the Universe is the complete absence of "primordial" antimatter from the Big Bang about 13.7 billion years ago.
Description: 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.