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Fix some spelling in CPV (Minor)
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In 1964, a team lead by Val Fitch and Jim Cronin performed experiments with <em>neutral Kaons</em>, particles formed by a strange and an anti-down quark.
These neutral Kaons have the amazing property that they can spontaneously transform into their own antiparticle.
Fitch and Cronin discovered that the rate at which these Kaons changed from matter to antimatter and vice versa was different, clear evidence for CP violation!
This discovery came as a total surprise to physicists (it was assumed that nature was symmetric under CP) and earned Cronin and Fitch the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1980/">Nobel price</a> in 1980.
This discovery came as a total surprise to physicists (it was assumed that nature was symmetric under CP) and earned Cronin and Fitch the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1980/">Nobel Prize</a> in 1980.
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<h4>How is CP violation currently understood?</h4>
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In 1973, two Japanese physicists, <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto_Kobayashi_(physicist)">Makoto Kobayashi</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshihide_Maskawa">Toshihide Maskawa</a>, found a very simple and elegant way to explain the occurence of CP violation in our universe.
In 1973, two Japanese physicists, <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto_Kobayashi_(physicist)">Makoto Kobayashi</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshihide_Maskawa">Toshihide Maskawa</a>, found a very simple and elegant way to explain the occurrence of CP violation in our universe.
The only problem: The explanation required a third generation of quarks (the <em>top</em> and <em>bottom</em> quarks) for which there was zero evidence at the time.
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This turned out to be an incredible prediction, when both of these quarks were discovered decades later.
So far, the idea of Kobayashi and Maskawa, called the <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa_matrix">CKM mechanism</a>, has been able to explain every single occurence of CP violation that physicists managed to detect in the lab.
They were awarded the Nobel price in 2008.
So far, the idea of Kobayashi and Maskawa, called the <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa_matrix">CKM mechanism</a>, has been able to explain every single occurrence of CP violation that physicists managed to detect in the lab.
They were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2008.
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