Issue |
EPL
Volume 95, Number 2, July 2011
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Article Number | 21003 | |
Number of page(s) | 4 | |
Section | The Physics of Elementary Particles and Fields | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/95/21003 | |
Published online | 28 June 2011 |
The asymmetric Kerr metric as a source of CP violation
Department of Physics, University of Warwick - Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK, EU
Received:
24
February
2011
Accepted:
31
May
2011
All experimental evidence for violation of discrete spacetime symmetries: Parity and Time reversal and the related Charge conjugation/Parity combination (P, T and CP, respectively) has been obtained on Earth in a gravitational potential that is P and T anisotropic. It is suggested that the origin of the observed CP violation is the scalar field equal to the frame dragging term dφdt in the Kerr metric of a spinning massive body. The Galaxy would be the largest such source. Indirect evidence of such an effect would be anisotropic decay products when plotted in a reference frame defined by the fixed stars. As a consequence, CP violation would be very much greater near compact astrophysical objects with large angular momentum.
PACS: 11.30.Er – Charge conjugation, parity, time reversal, and other discrete symmetries
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