ON THE MEASUREMENT OF CP-VIOLATING ENERGY DIFFERENCES IN MATTER-ANTIMATTER ENANTIOMERS

Experiments are outlined for measuring possible, hypothetical CP-viola ting energy differences arising in chiral molecules and their antimatt er-molecule enantiomers. While at present not within the reach of curr ent experimental techniques due to the difficulty of synthesizing and trapping antimatter-molecules, such experiments are feasible, in princ iple, not just as thought experiments. The experiments help to clarify some fundamental concepts of C, P, and T symmetry violations in molec ular physics with connections both to elementary particle physics and cosmology. They would constitute potentially by far the most sensitive proposed test for CPT symmetry violation.