More than half a century has elapsed since the first confirmation of the violation of parity. Soon afterwards CP violation was discovered, and although the standard model seems to correctly describe both phenomena, the origin of the breaking of these symmetries is still not clear. A number of related issues remain open, such as the possible breaking of P and T by strong interactions, the role of fundamental discrete symmetries in cosmology, especially in lepto and baryogenesis, the high energy and high temperature behavior of these symmetries, to mention a few.
July 2 to 5 2008, ICTP, Trieste, Italy
Workshop on the origins of P, CP and T violation
Scientific Purpose
Topics to be covered
CP Violation in K and B Physics - Strong CP Problem - Electric Dipole Moments - Spontaneous Versus Hard CP Violation - T Reversal - Origin of P Violation - P Restoration at Colliders - CPT and Lorentz Invariance - Non Perturbative Aspects - New Physics and Fundamental Symmetries - Discrete Symmetries in Cosmology - Baryo and Leptogenesis and Fundamental Symmetries
In the dawn of the LHC era, and with the accumulated data on CP violation in K and B physics, it is desirable to address in depth the phenomenology and cosmology of the fundamental discrete symmetries and the theoretical ideas on their origin. We wish to bring together a number of leading experts in both theory and experiment in order to assess the state of art in the field.