Four-photon decay of orthopositronium: A test of charge-conjugation invariance

1996 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 1952-1956 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinfeng Yang ◽  
Masami Chiba ◽  
Ryosuke Hamatsu ◽  
Tachishige Hirose ◽  
Toshihiro Matsumoto ◽  
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Author(s):  
Michael E. Peskin

This chapter discusses the representation of the weak interaction as a current-current interaction that violates parity and charge conjugation invariance. It describes the experiments that demonstrate that this violation is maximal. The resulting theory is called the V-A theory of the weak interaction. The chapter works out the predictions of the V-A theory for muon and pion decay and high-energy neutrino scattering and shows the comparison to experiment.


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