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On the measurement of CP-violating energy differences in matter-antimatter enantiomers

✍ Scribed by Martin Quack

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1994
Tongue: English
Weight: 777 KB
Volume: 231
Category: Article
ISSN: 0009-2614
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(94)01294-6

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✦ Synopsis

Experiments are outlined for measuring possible, hypothetical CP-violating energy differences arising in chiral molecules and their antimatter-molecule enantiomers. While at present not within the reach of current experimental techniques due to the difficulty of synthesizing and trapping antimatter-molecules, such experiments are feasible, in principle, not just as thought experiments. The experiments help to clarify some fundamental concepts of C, P, and T symmetry violations in molecular physics with connections both to elementary particle physics and cosmology. They would constitute potentially by far the most sensitive proposed test for CPTsymmetry violation.

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