CP Violation (Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology, Series Number 9) - Softcover

Bigi, I. I.; Sanda, A. I.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521055768 ISBN 13: 9780521055765

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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 the front line of research, this timely 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 new 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 new 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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Book Description

Why did the matter in our Universe did not annihilate itself withantimatter immediately after its creation? The discovery of CPviolation may answer this fundamental question. From the basics to the front-line of research, this timely account presents background information and theoretical tools necessary for understanding this phenomenon. The importance of close links with experiment is stressed throughout. Each chapter concludes with problems and detailed references are included. Suitable for graduate students and researchers in particle physics, atomic and nuclear physics and the history and philosophy of science.

About the Author

Ikaros Bigi was born in Munich, Germany. Following undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Universities of Munich, Oxford and Stanford, he has taught and researched at the Max-Planck Institute for Physics, CERN, RWTH Aachen, the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Oregon, SLAC and the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He is a former scholarship student of the Maximilianeum Foundation and Scholarship Foundation of the German People, and has been appointed both a Heisenberg Fellow and a Max-Kade Fellow.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521055768
• ISBN 13: 9780521055765
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 404