• A
• A
• A
• ABC
• ABC
• ABC
• А
• А
• А
• А
• А
Regular version of the site

## Measurement of matter–antimatter differences in beauty baryon decays

Nature Physics. 2017. Vol. 13. P. 391-396.

Differences in the behaviour of matter and antimatter have been observed in K and B meson decays, but not yet in any baryon decay. Such differences are associated with the non-invariance of fundamental interactions under the combined charge-conjugation and parity transformations, known as CP violation. Here, using data from the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, we search for CP-violating asymmetries in the decay angle distributions of Λb0 baryons decaying to π+π− and K+K− final states. These four-body hadronic decays are a promising place to search for sources of CP violation both within and beyond the standard model of particle physics. We find evidence for CPviolation in Λb0 to π+π− decays with a statistical significance corresponding to 3.3 standard deviations including systematic uncertainties. This represents the first evidence for CP violation in the baryon sector.