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

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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521443490 ISBN 13: 9780521443494

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1999

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 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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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, 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 on CP violation, and on B physics. Since they began their collaboration in 1981, the authors have written 12 papers together and have spent a great deal of energy promoting the crucial importance of comprehensive experimental studies of beauty hadrons. In their first joint paper they explained the special role played by certain decays into flavour-nonspecific final states; among them was the channel B --->VKs upon which considerable and dedicated experimental efforts are fecussed at CERN, Fermilab, DESY, SLAC and KEK, and pointed out the peculiarities of the experimental situation which required asymmetric B factories now being built at SLAC and KEK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521443490
• ISBN 13: 9780521443494
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400