Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, and International Center for Elementary Particle Physics, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
Phys Rev Lett. 2010 Feb 26;104(8):083401. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.083401.
CP violation in the quark sector has been well established over the last decade, but has not been observed in the lepton sector. We search for CP violating decay processes in positronium, using the angular correlation of (S x k{1})(S x k{1}x k{2}), where S is the positronium spin and k{1}, k{2} are the directions of the positronium decay photons. To a sensitivity of 2.2x10{-3}, no CP violation has been found, which is at the level of the CP violation amplitude in the K meson. A 90% confidence interval of the CP violation parameter (C{CP}) was determined to be -0.0023<C{CP}<0.0049. This result is a factor 7 more strict than that of the previous experiment.
在过去的十年中,夸克领域的 CP 破坏已经得到了很好的证实,但在轻子领域尚未观察到。我们通过测量(S x k{1})(S x k{1}x k{2})的角关联,在正电子素中寻找 CP 破坏的衰变过程,其中 S 是正电子素的自旋,k{1},k{2}是正电子素衰变光子的方向。在灵敏度为 2.2x10{-3}的情况下,没有发现 CP 破坏,这与 K 介子中的 CP 破坏幅度相当。确定 CP 破坏参数(C{CP})的 90%置信区间为 -0.0023<C{CP}<0.0049。这个结果比之前的实验严格了 7 倍。