What type of symmetry does CP-violation refer to?
Geometric
Physical
Charge-Parity
Mirror
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Charge-Parity (CP) violation refers to the phenomenon in particle physics where the laws of physics are not the same for particles and their antiparticles when combined with spatial inversion (parity transformation). This means that the behavior of a particle and its antiparticle are not mirror images of each other in certain processes.
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