CP-violation

In particle physics, CP violation is a violation of the postulated CP symmetry, the combination of C symmetry and P symmetry. CP symmetry states that the laws of physics should be the same if a particle were interchanged with its antiparticle (C symmetry, or charge conjugation symmetry), and left and right were swapped (P symmetry, or parity symmetry). The discovery of CP violation in 1964 in the decays of neutral kaons resulted in the Nobel Priz... more

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Year Award Award Winner Notes/Description
  • 1980
  • for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons
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