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Physical Society Colloquium
Sören Prell
University of California at San Diego Violation of the combined symmetry CP of parity (P) and charge conjugation (C), considered as responsible for the creation of the matter-dominant universe, has first been observed in 1964 as a small effect in neutral kaon decays. The Standard Model of particle physics describes CP violation and predicts large asymmetries in the decays of neutral beauty (B0) mesons. I will report on studies of B0 mesons performed with the BaBar experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center that lead to the first observation of CP violation 37 years after its discovery in kaon decays.
Friday, February 15th 2002, 15:30 |