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| ====== Parity ====== | ====== Parity ====== | ||
| - | <tabbox Why is it interesting?> | ||
| - | <tabbox Layman> | + | <tabbox Intuitive> |
| + | <blockquote>If you take a mirror, and look at a left hand in the mirror, it looks light a right hand. Such a process, which turns something behaving like a left hand into something like a right hand, is called a parity transformation in particle physics. | ||
| + | <cite>http://axelmaas.blogspot.de/2011/11/chiral-or-why-left-and-right-is-not.html</cite></blockquote> | ||
| - | <note tip> | + | Acting with a parity transformation on a system simply means that we create a mirrored copy of it. Another name for a parity transformation is spatial inversions. |
| - | 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> | + | So parity symmetry means mirror symmetry. |
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| - | <tabbox Student> | + | <tabbox Concrete> |
| - | <note tip> | + | Explicitly, the parity operator acting on four-vectors is given by |
| - | In this section things should be explained by analogy and with pictures and, if necessary, some formulas. | + | |
| - | </note> | + | \begin{equation} \label{eq:pardef3d} \Lambda_P = \begin{pmatrix} |
| - | + | 1& 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0&-1 & 0 & 0\\ 0 & 0 & -1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & -1 | |
| - | <tabbox Researcher> | + | \end{pmatrix} \end{equation} |
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| + | This matrix flips all spatial coordinates and keeps the time coordinate unchanged. | ||
| + | <tabbox Abstract> | ||
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| - | <tabbox Examples> | + | |
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