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Past exam of the particle physics course of the University of Oxford 2018 3 c iii Solution by
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Interference CP violation concerns the relative phase between direct decay and decay after mixing. For a common CP eigenstate final state, it can occur with both and , so neither of the first two mechanisms is needed. In that limit , butproduces different interference terms for and . With ,The term proportional to consequently reverses sign. In the CP-conserving limit, is the real CP parity of the final state in a consistent phase convention. For non-CP-eigenstate final states, compare the full coefficients in CP-conjugate rates rather than imposing this simplified criterion.
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