CP VIOLATION Why does CP violation

The seemingly obscure phenomenon of CP violation is increasingly being viewed as the key to a deeper understanding of both the behaviour of elementary particles and the Big Bang origin of the universe. Here, John Ellis of CERN explains how far and how deep the implications of CP violation extend.

The visible universe is composed of matter particles - protons, neutrons and electrons - rather than their antimatter partners - antiprotons, antineutrons and positrons. If the Moon were composed of antimatter, then lunar probes and astronauts would have van­ ished in a fireball of as soon as they touched the lunar sur­ face. The solar wind and cosmic rays do not destroy us, implying that the Sun and the Milky Way are also made of matter. If there were any region of antimatter within our local cluster of Exploring the untracked expanses of the cosmos and the galaxies, we would be able to see radiation from matter-antimatter microworld - eminent CERN theorist John Ellis. annihilations at the boundaries. Moreover, the cosmic microwave background radiation shows no signs of disturbance by subsequent universe? A possible answer was provided by Andrei Sakharov in annihilation radiation, suggesting that there are no large regions of 1967. He laid out three conditions that would enable a universe antimatter within at least 10 billion light years - and perhaps the containing initially equal amounts of matter and antimatter to evolve whole visible universe. into a matter-dominated universe, which we see today. The Big Bang should have created equal amounts of matter and The first requirement was that the proton - the bedrock particle of antimatter. Why is there now so much of one and so little of the nuclear matter - should be unstable. The second was that there other? CP violation - an obscure effect seen only with certain kinds would be interactions violating C and CR as shown by Cronin and of elementary particles - could provide the answer. Fitch, that would open up the possibility that the universe's initial exact matter-antimatter symmetry could be upset. The third Enter CP violation condition was that the universe would undergo a phase of extremely A recent article by Gerry Bauer ("In hot pursuit of CP violation" CERN rapid expansion: otherwise, matter and antimatter particles, having Courier June p22) set the CP violation scene. In 1964, James equal masses, would be fated to pair up with equal densities. Cronin, Val Fitch and collaborators discovered that the decays of If a cosmological matter-antimatter asymmetry could be built up neutral did not respect the symmetry known as CP - the in this way, all of the remaining antimatter particles would annihilate combination of particle-antiparticle (charge conjugation - C) and later in the history of the universe, leaving behind matter particles mirror ( - P) symmetry. and radiation, as observed today. It had been known since 1957 that weak interactions violate both Sakharov's landmark paper provided the conceptual framework the C and P symmetries - neutrinos spin left-handedly, whereas their for generating a matter universe, but it has fallen to subsequent gen­ antiparticles (antineutrinos) exist only in right-handed form. Despite erations of physicists to explore specific mechanisms realizing his this maximal violation of C and R it had been thought that they were ideas, opening up some possibilities and excluding others. Key roles always violated together so as to respect the combination CP in this exploration are being played by recent experimental results However, the Cronin-Fitch experiment showed that this could not from CERN and Fermilab, and new data from SLAC, KEK, Cornell, be exactly true. What is the connection between this abtruse DESY and Frascati may soon be making important contributions. property of elementary particles and the matter dominance of the The favoured theoretical framework for CP violation was provided

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The decay channel of the NA48 experiment at CERN - the latest study to provide a precision measurement of CP violation.

in 1973 by Kobayashi and Maskawa, who pointed out that CP was soon realized that the minimal GUTs originally proposed would violation would follow automatically if there were at least six yield too small an excess of , so the GUT would need to be flavours. Measurements in the neutral-kaon system and elsewhere expanded to produce the amount of matter particles that are are all consistent with this being the only source of CP violation, observed in the universe today: 10"9 of the number of . although they leave room for other sources, which inventive theorists It was suggested that the extra CP violation required might also continually propose. generate a neutron electric dipole moment large enough to be detected. (Although a neutral particle, the neutron could contain an GUT feeling asymmetric distribution of equal and opposite positive and negative Also in 1973, Pati and Salam, and Georgi and Glashow, proposed charge.) However, a long experimental campaign currently led by an grand unified theories (GUTs) containing new interactions that experiment at ILL Grenoble limits this to less than 6x 10~26ecm, allowed for proton decay. Such decay would violate the conservation analogous to the Earth's surface being smooth and symmetric to of baryon number-the total number of strongly interacting particles less than 1 urn. minus the number of antiparticles. So far, dedicated searches in By then, theorists had developed new ideas. One idea was that such large underground detectors as Super-Kamiokande have not the strong interactions might also violate CP The fact that this has seen any evidence for this. However, the evidence that they have not been seen led to the postulation of the axion, which might be a found for neutrino masses suggests that interactions that violate component of the universe's dark matter. lepton number (the total number of weakly interacting particles minus the number of antiparticles) do exist.This is another key pre­ Weak washout diction of many GUTs, and may even play a role in generating the The other surprise was that electroweak interactions could also matter in the universe, as discussed later. change baryon number.This does not happen via the exchange of a In 1978, CP violation and GUTs were combined by Yoshimura in a specific particle. Instead it arises from coherent fields with non-triv­ proposal for generating the matter asymmetry of the universe via ial topological properties.These non-perturbative electroweak inter­ the decays of massive particles. His idea was that, if they produced actions provide both a challenge and an opportunity.The challenge a CP-violating excess of quarks in their decays, this would evolve is that they might "wash out" any matter density that is built up by into the matter that we see in the universe today. Unfortunately, it GUT particles. The opportunity is that they might enable the matter

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density to be built up by the electroweak interactions alone. CP violation might be sensitive to subtle effects One way to avoid the weak washout is to have the GUTs generate indicating new physics that might be a net density of leptons, which the additional weak interactions provides a related to a mechanism for gener­ would then recycle into baryons. One such scenario, proposed by uniquely subtle ating the matter in the universe. Fukugita and Yanagida, relies on the decays of heavy right-handed One such experiment is LHCb, neutrinos in the early universe. Some indirect support for this link between which is scheduled to start taking scenario comes from recent experimental hints that the known light inner space, as data at CERN's LHC collider in 2005. neutrinos can mix (oscillate) and have masses, which could be due BTeV, another next-generation B to mixing with such heavy neutrinos. At least some neutrino models explored by experiment, is under consideration for that fit the neutrino data are also able to generate the matter in the experiments in theTevatron.There are plenty of other universe. Another weighty implication of the new neutrino data? opportunities for future experiments As a GUTIess alternative, perhaps the matter in the universe was the laboratory, to probe CP violation and cast light generated when the cooling of the universe triggered a phase and outer space, on the ori&n of the matter in the transition enabling quarks and the W and Z carriers of the weak force pq PvnlnrpH h\/ universe. One is provided by rare neu- to acquire their masses from the Higgs boson? This electroweak db CApiuieu uy tra) kaon decays, for example, pro- mechanism would require the phase transition from a hot universe teleSCOpeS ducing a neutral together with a with massless particles to the present state with massive particles to ma " tf th neutrino and an antineutrino or an have been abrupt, so as to meet Sakharov's third requirement. [Measuring ine electron-positron pair.The measure- Unfortunately, the Higgs boson has not yet shown up at CERN's density Of matter ments of direct CP violation in decays LEP electron-positron collider, implying that it weighs more than *n tha n" ore int0 tW0 leave room for lar^e about 100 GeV and that the electroweak phase transition was too in me Universe. supersymmetric contributions to CP weak to allow the matter of the universe to be generated this way. violation, which could cast light on However, the door is not yet closed. For example, a supersym- supersymmetric scenarios for the origin of matter. metric scenario, with new "sparticles" partnering the known Another opportunity is the continued search for the neutron particles, might provide a suitable abrupt transition, and also electric dipole moment, which might be able to reach the sensitivity contain additional CP-violating effects that could generate a suitable required to test GUT models for the origin of matter. matter density. These supersymmetric options suggest that LEP, which is now operating at higher energy, might produce a Higgs Future violations boson this year or the next. If LEP is lucky, this could also have In the longer term, there are enticing opportunities to search for CP weighty implications for the universe. violation in neutrino oscillations, which could explore aspects of the models based on the decays of heavy neutrinos. Studies are under CP in the laboratory way on "neutrino factories" based on the decays of in storage One of the great attractions of such GUTIess models is the possibility rings (CERN Courier July p22). These provide well defined neutrino that they could be tested in laboratory experiments on CP violation. and antineutrino beams with both electron and flavours, which This exciting prospect has been underlined by the recent provide opportunities to search for CP-violating effects in the oscil­ confirmation, by the KTeV experiment at Fermilab and by NA48 at lations of neutrinos and antineutrinos. Looking further ahead, if the CERN, of direct CP violation - the decay of neutral kaons into two problems of controlling the muon beams can be solved, muon col­ pions - first measured by the NA31 experiment at CERN . The mag­ liders could study Higgs bosons in unparalleled detail. nitude of the effect is surprisingly large. Supersymmetric models capable of generating matter in the uni­ Another possible observation of CP violation has recently been verse raise the possibility that the decays of Higgs bosons might reported by the CDF collaboration at Fermilab in the decays of reveal novel violations of CP symmetry. neutral B particles, each giving a J/psi and a neutral kaon. A large CP violation provides a uniquely subtle link between inner space, effect is expected in the , and this is the most likely as explored by experiments in the laboratory, and outer space, as interpretation of the CDF data, although a null result cannot yet be explored by telescopes measuring the density of matter in the excluded completely. universe. CP violation in the decays of B mesons is the primary objective of I am sure that this dialogue between theory, experiment and the experiments BaBar and BELLE at the B factories, which are cosmology will culminate in a theory of the origin of the matter in the starting to take data at SLAC in Stanford and KEK in Japan. Their universe, based on the far-reaching ideas proposed by Sakharov in first task will be to seek confirmation of CP violation in the reaction 1967.This would be an achievement comparable in significance to probed by CDF and to search for CP violation in the decays of neutral the emerging theory of the formation of structure in the universe, Bs into pion pairs. based on inflation and dark matter. Microphysics and macrophysics Also in the hunt will be HERA-B at DESY, the revamped CLEO are now yoked together, pulling scientific explorers across the detector at Cornell and experiments at Fermilab'sTevatron collider. untracked expanses of the cosmos. Even if these experiments turn out to agree with the orthodoxy of the Standard Model, there is scope for follow-on experiments that John Ellis CERN.

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