Kaons

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New LHC data puts 'new physics' lead to bed

Dec 20, 2022 3 min read

Scicomm B mesons electrons flavour-changing neutral current Kaons Large Hadron Collider lepton-flavour universality LHCb muons New Physics Standard Model of particle physics

One particle in the big zoo of subatomic particles is the B meson. It has a very short lifetime once it's created. In rare instances it decays to three lighter particles: a kaon, a lepton and an a…

On meson decay-modes in studying CP violation

Nov 21, 2012 8 min read

Uncategorized Andrei Sakharov antimatter B-meson BaBar experiment baryogenesis Belle Experiment CP-symmetry violation CPT theorem flavor oscillations George Sudarshan James Cronin Kaons mesons Murray Gell-Mann Pions proton decay quantum chromodynamics quantum field theory Robert Marshak Standard Model of particle physics Val Fitch

In particle physics, CPT symmetry is an attribute of the universe that is held as fundamentally true by quantum field theory (QFT). It states that the laws of physics should not be changed and the opp…