CP Violation

2. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-521-84794-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 506 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1044 g

Reihe: Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology

Why didn't the matter in our Universe annihilate with antimatter immediately after its creation? The study of CP violation may help to answer this fundamental question. This book presents theoretical tools necessary to understand this phenomenon. Reflecting the explosion of new results over the last decade, this second edition has been substantially expanded. It introduces charge conjugation, parity and time reversal, before describing the Kobayashi-Maskawa (KM) theory for CP violation and our understanding of CP violation in kaon decays. It reveals how the discovery of B mesons has provided a new laboratory to study CP violation with KM theory predicting large asymmetries, and discusses how these predictions have been confirmed since the first edition of this book. Later chapters describe the search for a new theory of nature's fundamental dynamics. This book is suitable for researchers in high energy, atomic and nuclear physics and the history and philosophy of science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bigi, I. I.

Sanda, A. I.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Hochenergiephysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Geschichte der Physik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Kernphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Atom- und Molekülphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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
Part II. Theory and Experiments: 7. The quest for CP violation in K decays - a marathon
8. The KM implementation of CP violation
9. The theory of KL - nn decays
10. Paradigmatic discoveries in B physics
11. Let the drama unfold - B CP phenomenology
12. Rare K and B decays - almost perfect laboratories
13. CPT violation - could it be in K and B decays?
14. CP violation in charm decays - the dark horse
15. The strong CP problem
Part III. Looking Beyond the Standard Model: 16. Quest for CP violation in the neutrino sector
17. Possible corrections to the KM ansatz: right-handed currents and non-minimal Higgs dynamics
18. CP violation without nonperturbative dynamics - top quarks and charged leptons
19. SUSY - providing shelter for Higgs dynamics
20. Minimal flavour violation and extra dimensions
21. Baryogenesis in the universe
Part IV. Summary: 11. Summary and Perspectives
References
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Sanda, A. I.
Ichiro Sanda was born in Tokyo, and at the age of 14 accompanied his father who was transferred to the United States on business. After a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Illinois and a PhD from Princeton University, he taught and researched at Columbia University, Fermilab and Rockefeller University. In 1992, after 34 years in the US, he went to Japan as a professor of physics at Nagoya University. He is now the chairman of the physics department. He is a winner of the 10th Inoue Prize (1993) and the 43rd Nishina Memorial Prize (1997). Both prizes have been awarded for his work in CP violation, and on B physics.

Bigi, I. I.
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, UCLA, the University of Oregon, SLAC and the University of Notre Dame. 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.

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, UCLA, the University of Oregon, SLAC and the University of Notre Dame. 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.

Ichiro Sanda was born in Tokyo, and at the age of 14 accompanied his father who was transferred to the United States on business. After a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Illinois and a PhD from Princeton University, he taught and researched at Columbia University, Fermilab and Rockefeller University. In 1992, after 34 years in the US, he went to Japan as a professor of physics at Nagoya University. He is now the chairman of the physics department. He is a winner of the 10th Inoue Prize (1993) and the 43rd Nishina Memorial Prize (1997). Both prizes have been awarded for his work in CP violation, and on B physics.