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====== CPT Symmetry====== | ====== CPT Symmetry====== | ||
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- | According to the famous [[theorems:cpt|CPT theorem]] the symmetry CPT holds for //all// physical phenomena under quite reasonable assumptions. | ||
- | <tabbox Layman> | ||
- | <note tip> | + | <tabbox Intuitive> |
- | Explanations in this section should contain no formulas, but instead colloquial things like you would hear them during a coffee break or at a cocktail party. | + | |
- | </note> | + | CPT symmetry means that a mirror-image of our universe where we reverse all momenta (corresponding to the reversal of time) and with all matter replaced by anti-matter would evolve under exactly the same physical laws. |
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- | <tabbox Student> | + | |
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+ | A nice introduction is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yArprk0q9eE&feature=youtu.be|this video by Veritasium]]. | ||
+ | <tabbox Concrete> | ||
* See [[https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0309309.pdf|WHY IS CPT FUNDAMENTAL?]] by O.W. Greenberg | * See [[https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0309309.pdf|WHY IS CPT FUNDAMENTAL?]] by O.W. Greenberg | ||
- | <tabbox Researcher> | + | <tabbox Abstract> |
* The standard reference is "PCT, spin and statistics, and all that" by R. F. Streater and A. S. Wightman. | * The standard reference is "PCT, spin and statistics, and all that" by R. F. Streater and A. S. Wightman. | ||
- | <tabbox Examples> | + | <tabbox Why is it interesting?> |
+ | According to the famous [[theorems:cpt|CPT theorem]] the symmetry CPT holds for //all// physical phenomena under quite reasonable assumptions. | ||
- | --> Example1# | + | This makes CPT symmetry one of the most important symmetries of modern especially and especially of the [[models:standard_model|standard model of particle physics]]. |
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- | --> Example2:# | + | * For the experimental status of CPT symmetry see the [[https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0287|Data Tables for Lorentz and CPT Violation]] by Alan Kostelecky, Neil Russell |
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- | <tabbox History> | + | |
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