CP Violation

Reflecting on the explosion of research activities in this field over the last decade, this edition has been substantially expanded.

I. I. Bigi (Author), A. I. Sanda (Author)

9781107424302, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 October 2016

506 pages
24.5 x 17 x 2.2 cm, 0.9 kg

'The structure of the book follows an excellent layout … excellently structured and well written by two renowned scientists and eminent experts in the field. … particularly useful for Ph.D. students and young postdocs. …the scientifically outstanding text of the book makes it suitable for everyday reading of experienced researchers, Ph.D. students and other physicists working in the field of experimental or theoretical elementary particle physics … can be best categorised, as 'All you wanted to know about CP violation but you never imagined finding it in a single book.' Congratulations to the authors and many thanks for the excellent writing!' Contemporary Physics

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.

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 ? ?? 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: 22. Summary and perspectives
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Mathematical physics [PHU], Particle & high-energy physics [PHP], Nuclear physics [PHN]