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There is an unstated assumption in their statement: the decays of the kaon are  internal (independent of the background) and acausal (they have no cause). These  assumptions come from standard quantum mechanics.  We show that there is a cause for their decay and there is neither C violation  nor CP violation in the decays of the kaon. The asymmetry in the decays is due to  the asymmetry of the background, not an inherent difference.
There is an unstated assumption in their statement: the decays of the kaon are  internal (independent of the background) and acausal (they have no cause). These  assumptions come from standard quantum mechanics.  We show that there is a cause for their decay and there is neither C violation  nor CP violation in the decays of the kaon. The asymmetry in the decays is due to  the asymmetry of the background, not an inherent difference.


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Scientific Paper
TitleCausality in Kaon Decays
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Author(s)Tom Love
Keywords{{{keywords}}}
Published2010
JournalProceedings of the NPA
Volume7
No. of pages1
Pages302

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Abstract

The question we want to analyze is described by Branco, Lavoura and Silva: There is no other particle with equal mass. Therefore, KL must be its own antiparticle. It decays both to Pi+eNue and to the C-conjugate mode Pie+Nue. However, it decays slightly less often to the first than to the second mode. This fact unequivocally establishes both C violation and CP violation.

There is an unstated assumption in their statement: the decays of the kaon are internal (independent of the background) and acausal (they have no cause). These assumptions come from standard quantum mechanics. We show that there is a cause for their decay and there is neither C violation nor CP violation in the decays of the kaon. The asymmetry in the decays is due to the asymmetry of the background, not an inherent difference.