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Klappentext The violation of charge-conjugation and parity symmetries is a leading area of research in particle and nuclear physics, with important implications for understanding the generation of matter in the universe. CP violation occurs during the decay of the elementary particles known as kaons and the process remains little understood. This book provides a self-contained introduction to CP violation. It outlines the underlying theory and related experiments, and its systematic approach is designed to bring beginning researchers to the forefront of the field. Zusammenfassung This is an open access title. It is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International licence. It is available to read and download as a PDF version on the Oxford Academic platform.CP violation is an intriguing and elusive subject, and current knowledge of it remains limited, on both the experimental and theoretical levels. Researchers lack a fundamental understanding of its origin, and this is all the more important because CP violation is related to the generation problem and mass problem, two of the basic open questions in particle physics. This book provides beginning researchers with a self-contained introduction to the subject, starting at an elementary level and taking the reader to the forefront of current research. Inhaltsverzeichnis I: CP IN QUANTUM MECHANICS 1: The meaning of the discrete symmetries 2: The discrete symmetries in quantum physics 3: P, T, and C invariance of QED 4: Applications of the discrete symmetries 5: Weak and strong phases 6: Neutral-meson systems: mixing 7: Neutral-meson systems: decays 8: The neutral-kaon system 9: Heavy neutral-meson systems 10: Experimental status of B0-B0 mixing II: CP VIOLATION IN THE STANDARD MODEL 11: Gauge structure of the standard model 12: The fermions in the standard model 13: Fundamental properties of the CKM matrix 14: Weak-basis invariants and CP violation 15: Moduli of the CKM matrix elements 16: Parametrizations of the CKM matrix 17: ¿ 18: Mixing in the B0q - B00q systems 19: KL¿0vé 20: Effective Hamiltonians 21: ¿'/¿ III: CP VIOLATION BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL 22: Multi-Higgs-doublet models 23: Spontaneous CP violation 24: Models with vector-like quarks 25: Massive neutrinos and CP violation in the leptonic sector 26: The left-right-symmetric model 27: The strong CP problem IV: CP VIOLATION IN B DECAYS 28: Introduction 29: Some experimental issues 30: The mixing parameters 31: Decay amplitudes: diagrammatics 32: Decay amplitudes: effective Hamiltonian 33: CKM phases and interference CP violation 34: Cascade decays 35: Some methods to extract ¿ 36: Some methods to extract ¿ 37: Extracting CKM phases with B0s decays 38: Discrete ambiguities ...
