Symmetry Tests and Standard Model Backgrounds

Abstract

Symmetry tests provide an important probe for the structure of elementary particle interactions and for the validity of the standard model. However, it is pointed out that in the interpretation of such experiments one must keep in mind that in many cases apparent "violations" of such tests are actually the result of ordinary effects within the standard model.

Comments: 12 pg. Latex file, contribution to International Symposium on Symmetry Tests in Subatomic Physics, Taipei, May, 1994, to be published