The Optical Analogue of CP Violation
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
The peculiar features of the mixing in the neutral pseudoscalar mesons K0--antiK0 can be introduced by the analogy to the optical polarization. The time-reversed not-invariant processes and the related phenomenon of CP-nonconservation can be then joined to the dissipative effects which yield a not vanishing imaginary part in the relevant propagation of electromagnetic radiation in a medium. Thus, the propagation of the two transverse polarization states can reproduce the peculiar asymmetries which are so common in the realm of high energy particle physics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9709486,
title = {The Optical Analogue of CP Violation},
author = {D. Cocolicchio and L. Telesca and M. Viggiano},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9709486},
year = {2009}
}
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18 pages, LaTeX file