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Time-Dependent CP Violation Measurements

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The physics of B mesons, bound states of heavy beauty- and light up- or down-quarks, provides a very rich and interesting field of research, because many physical processes involving the time evolution and the decay of B mesons are driven by interference and loop effects, and therefore allow to test the underlying quantum theory.

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Röhrken, M. (2014). Introduction. In: Time-Dependent CP Violation Measurements. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00726-7_1

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