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

• Main Author: Kleinknecht, Konrad (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 195
• Subjects: Nuclear physics.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Quantum physics.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Quantum Physics.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Symmetries
• Mixing and Decay of Neutral Mesons
• Models of CP Violation
• The Neutral K Meson System
• The Neutral B Meson System
• Weak Quark Mixing and the CKM Matrix
• Conclusion.