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Last year two of the hottest topics of conversation at this conference were1: 1) the rumor that muon-number violation might have been observed in the μ+→e++γ and 2) the failure of bismuth experiments to detect parity violation at the level predicted by the standard Weinberg-Salam model2. During the intervening time between then and now, several significant theoretical and experimental developments regarding these topics have occurred.
Work supported in part by the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration under grant number EY-76-C-02-2232B. *000.
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Marciano, W.J. (1978). Status of Muon-Number Conservation and Comments on Parity Violation in Atoms. In: Perlmutter, A., Scott, L.F. (eds) New Frontiers in High-Energy Physics. Studies in the Natural Sciences, vol 14. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2865-0_14
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