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CP Violation and Flavor Mixing (Nobel Lecture)
Author(s) -
Kobayashi Makoto
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
chemphyschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.016
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1439-7641
pISSN - 1439-4235
DOI - 10.1002/cphc.200900215
Subject(s) - nobel laureate , mixing (physics) , cp violation , physics , particle physics , chemistry , theoretical physics , philosophy , quantum mechanics , linguistics , poetry
Six different tastes: The discovery of the broken symmetry has required the Standard Model to be extended to six kinds of quarks (see picture). The existence of the new particles was predicted in 1972, but only thirty years later could they be observed experimentally. Makoto Kobayashi, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2008, describes herein how he and Toshihide Maskawa made their groundbreaking discovery.