Tests of fundamental symmetries with β decay
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Since the fall of parity in electroweak interactions the discrete transformations of parity, charge conjugation and time reversal are under close scrutiny for any sign of deviation from maximality where symmetry breaking seems to be complete (like P violation in β decay) and for any sign of symmetry breaking when this has not yet been observed (like T violation in
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