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Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe

Figure 1.

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Figure 1. illustrates the CP symmetry operation performed upon a meson particle. We say that the CP symmetry is violated if we observe that the original system (first frame in Fig.1) decays into a different particle than the CP transformed system (fourth frame in Fig.1).

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