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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. The author Konrad Kleinknecht received the Leibniz award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 1990 and the Gentner-Kastler prize and medal of SFP and DPG 2001.
List 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.
About the author
Konrad Kleinknecht, geboren 1940 in Ravensburg, studierte in München und Heidelberg Physik und Mathematik. Er lehrte und forschte an den Universitäten Heidelberg und Dortmund, am California Institute of Technology, der Harvard University und am CERN in Genf. Seit 1985 ist er Professor für Physik an der Universität Mainz. Für seine Arbeiten erhielt er zahlreiche Preise, u.a. den Leibniz-Preis der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft. Konrad Kleinknecht ist Klimabeauftragter der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft. Er erhielt 2007 die Stern-Gerlach-Medaille 2008, eine Auszeichnung der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft (DPG) im Bereich der experimentellen Physik.
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. The author Konrad Kleinknecht received the Leibniz award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 1990 and the Gentner-Kastler prize and medal of SFP and DPG 2001.
