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Charge conjugation

Charge conjugation

Extracted from the Wikipedia article C-symmetry.

Charge reversal in electroweak theory

Charge conjugation does not alter the chirality of particles. A left-handed neutrino would be taken by charge conjugation into a left-handed antineutrino, which does not interact in the Standard Model. This property is what is meant by the "maximal violation" of C-symmetry in the weak interaction.