
CP Violation
Cambridge University Press
Published on 11. November 1999
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-521-44349-4 (ISBN)
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Description
Why did the matter in our universe not annihilate itself with antimatter immediately after its creation? The discovery of CP violation may answer this fundamental question. From the basics to front-line research, this account presents background information and theoretical tools necessary for understanding this phenomenon. Early chapters explore charge conjugation, parity, and time reversal symmetries before introducing the Kobayashi-Maskawa ansatz for CP violation and examining the theoretical understanding of CP violating K meson decays. Following chapters reveal how the discovery of B mesons provides a laboratory in which to study CP violation and predict CP violation in B meson decays and rare K meson decays. Later chapters continue the search for a fundamental theory and address the problem of baryogenesis in the big bang universe. The importance of close links with experiment is stressed throughout. Each chapter concludes with problems. Detailed references are included. This book is suitable for graduate students and researchers in particle physics, atomic and nuclear physics and the history and philosophy of science.
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'This is by far the best account I have seen of the 'CP-problem', one of the most intriguing issues in modern physics.' A. PaisMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
7 Tables, unspecified; 68 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 255 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
852 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-44349-4 (9780521443494)
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Content
Foreword; Part I. Basics of CP Violation: 1. Prologue; 2. Prelude: C, P and T in classical dynamics; 3. C, P and T in non-relativistic quantum mechanics; 4. C, P and T in relativistic quantum theories; 5. The arrival of strange particles; 6. Quantum mechanics of neutral particles; 7. CP phenomenology of strange decays; Part II. Theory of CP Violation: 8. The KM implementation of CP violation; 9. The theory of KL??? decays; 10. Fundamentals of B physics; 11. Basics of the CP phenomenology in B decays; 12. The nitty-gritty of B physics; 13. Rare K and B decays; 14. CPT invariance in K and B decays; 15. CP violation in other heavy systems; Part III. Looking Beyond the Standard Model: 16. The strong CP problem; 17. Setting the table for CP violation in the neutrino sector; 18. First alternative to the KM ansatz: left-right symmetric models; 19. CP violation from Higgs dynamics; 20. Providing shelter for Higgs dynamics - CP violation from supersymmetry; 21. Baryogenesis in the universe; Part IV. Summary: 22. Summary and perspectives; References; Index.