Uncovering CP violation : experimental clarification in the neutral K meson and B meson systems /

Uncovering CP violation : experimental clarification in the neutral K meson and B meson systems /

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Author / Creator:Kleinknecht, K. (Konrad), 1940-
Imprint:Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2003.
Description:1 online resource (142 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Springer tracts in modern physics, 0081-3869 ; v. 195
Springer tracts in modern physics ; 195.
Subject:
CP violation (Nuclear physics)
CP violation (Nuclear physics)
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11065349
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ISBN:9783540449164
3540449167
3540403337
9783540403333
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Other form:Print version: Kleinknecht, K. (Konrad), 1940- Uncovering CP violation. Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2003

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