Group-theoretical origin of CP violation

  • Michael Ratz UC Irvine
  • Mu-Chun Chen
Keywords: CP violation; Particle physics; String theoty

Abstract

This is a short review of the proposal that CP violation may be due to the fact that certain finite groups do not admit a physical CP transformation. This origin of CP violation is realized in explicit string compactifications exhibiting the Standard Model spectrum.

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Published
2019-03-23