Resource Letter ETDSTS‐1: Experimental tests of the discrete space‐time symmetries

• Published in: American journal of physics Vol. 61; no. 9; pp. 778 - 788
• Main Author: Commins, Eugene D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Woodbury American Institute of Physics 01-09-1993
• Subjects: 662120 - General Theory of Particles & Fields- Symmetry, Conservation Laws, Currents & Their Properties- (1992-); AMPLITUDES; Bibliographic literature; CHARGE CONSERVATION; CPT THEOREM; FUNCTIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MECHANICS; PARITY; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; Physics; PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TESTING; TRANSITION AMPLITUDES; WAVE FUNCTIONS; CPT THEOREM; PARITY; CHARGE CONSERVATION; DATA; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TRANSITION AMPLITUDES; WAVE FUNCTIONS
• ISSN: 0002-9505; 1943-2909
• DOI: 10.1119/1.17170

This Resource Letter provides a guide to the literature on experimental tests of space‐inversion symmetry or parity (P), charge conjugation symmetry (C), time reversal symmetry (T), and the combined symmetries CP and CPT. Journal articles and books are cited for the following topics: early history, parity nonconservation in charged weak interactions, parity nonconservation in high‐energy polarized‐electron scattering, parity nonconservation in atoms, CPT invariance, tests of C‐invariance, CP violation in neutral kaon decay, tests of time‐reversal invariance, and search for electric dipole moments. [The letter E after an item indicates elementary level or material of general interest to persons becoming informed in the field. The letter I, for intermediate level, indicates material of a somewhat more specialized nature, and the letter A indicates rather specialized or advanced material.]