Telling Teller from Anti-Teller: First Results on CP Violation From BABAR

David G. Hitlin
Professor of Physics
Caltech
 

At early times after the Big Bang, CP violation was crucial to the evolution of our matter-dominated universe.
 

Violation of CP symmetry in the weak decays of K mesons is well established experimentally, but after more than thirty-five years we still do not know whether the posited Standard Model mechanism for CP violation is in fact correct.
 

A new generation of experiments studying the weak decays of B mesons will provide stringent new tests of the Standard Model mechanism of CP violation. The first experimental results on CP violation in B decay from the BABAR experiment at the new PEP-II asymmetric B Factory at SLAC will be discussed.