Uncovering CP Violation Experimental Clarification in the Neutral K Meson and B Meson Systems /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Kleinknecht, Konrad (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2003.
• Σειρά: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 195
• Θέματα: Nuclear physics.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Quantum physics.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Quantum Physics.
• Φυσική περιγραφή: XI, 144 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540449164
• ISSN: 0081-3869 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/b13589

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.