1. First direct observation of time-reversal violation
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R. Le Gac, J. R. Fry, H.-J. Gerber, P. Bloch, T. Nakada, F. Montanet, O. Behnke, C. Eleftheriadis, M.B. Chertok, E. Gabathuler, R. Rickenbach, F. Leimgruber, A. Schopper, Kerstin Jon-And, Nikolaos Manthos, P. Pavlopoulos, M. Mikuž, M. Fidecaro, A. Apostolakis, W. Fetscher, P.J. Hayman, R. Gamet, P. Weber, P. Bargassa, C. Touramanis, A. Muller, Ioannis Papadopoulos, T. Ruf, F. Henry-Couannier, P.R. Kettle, L. Tauscher, Marcin Wladyslaw Wolter, Lukas A. Schaller, J. Derre, Panagiotis Kokkas, G. Marel, F. Blanc, A. Go, E. Cawley, Mats Danielsson, O. Wigger, T. Schietinger, David Francis, Sotirios Vlachos, Elie Aslanides, J. S. Miller, A. Angelopoulos, B. Pagels, Marc Dejardin, A. Benelli, C.W.E. van Eijk, A. Haselden, A. Ealet, Igor Mandić, R.W. Hollander, Michael C. Carroll, R. Kreuger, D. Zimmerman, P. Carlson, Danilo Zavrtanik, V. Bertin, M. Schafer, G. Backenstoss, Andrej Filipcic, G. Polivka, C. Thibault, B. L. Roberts, and Francois Touchard
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Physics ,Nuclear physics ,Particle physics ,Positron ,Pion ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Charge (physics) ,Electron ,Strangeness ,Neutrino ,Asymmetry ,Lepton ,media_common - Abstract
Using its unique capability of strangeness tagging at K0 production in pp→K∓π±K0(K0) and at decay with the lepton charge in semileptonic decays CPLEAR measured the semileptonic decay-rate asymmetry R(K0→e+π−ν)−R(K0→e−π+ν)R(K0→e+π−ν)+R(K0→e−π+ν). The asymmetry, fitted over the eigentime interval 1–20 τS, yielded a non-zero result of (6.6±1.3stat±1.1syst)×10−3. A thorough phenomenological anaylsis identifies T violation in K0 mixing and/or CPT violation in semileptonic decays as possible interpretations. A confrontation with world data on neutral kaon decays, however, excludes the latter with sufficient precision to establish the result as the first direct observation of time reversal non-invariance.
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- 2000
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