1. Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry - Aspects at Low Energy
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Willmann, Lorenz, Jungmann, Klaus, and Precision Frontier
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ANTIHYDROGEN ,Physics::General Physics ,STORAGE-RINGS ,FOS: Physical sciences ,INVARIANCE ,Fundamental symmetries ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,ATOMS ,MOLECULES ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) ,SEARCH ,matter-antimatter asymmetry ,ELECTRIC-DIPOLE MOMENTS ,LASER SPECTROSCOPY ,ANTIPROTONIC HELIUM ,precision experiments - Abstract
The apparent dominance of matter over antimatter in our universe is an obvious and puzzling fact which cannot be adequately explained in present physical frameworks that assume matter-antimatter symmetry at the big bang. However, our present knowledge of starting conditions and of known sources of CP violation are both insufficient to explain the observed asymmetry. Therefore ongoing research on matter-antimatter differences is strongly motivated as well as attempts to identify viable new mechanisms that could create the present asymmetry. Here we concentrate on possible precision experiments at low energies towards a resolution of this puzzle., Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure; accepted for publication in Annalen der Physik (2015)
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- 2015
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