Conveners
Session IV(Day2)
- Shao-Feng Ge (TDLI-SJTU)
The discovery of parity violation marked a turning point in fundamental physics: it showed that nature distinguishes left from right, revealing the chiral structure of the weak interaction and paving the way to electroweak theory. This line of inquiry has continued through the discoveries of CP violation, electroweak unification, and the Higgs boson with its associated scalar interactions....
After reviewing the familiar definition of parity transformations and why they are explicitly broken in the standard model, I will discuss three ways that parity can be upgraded to being either a spontaneously broken or an exact symmetry. The resulting theories remain as interesting, aesthetically-driven speculations for physics beyond the standard model that can be searched for experimentally...
