kaon

A kaon is any of a group of four mesons distinguished by a quantum number called strangeness.

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NA62 experiment at CERN observes ultra-rare particle decay

In the Standard Model of particle physics, the odds of this decay occurring are less than one in 10 billion

Press release
Physics
25 September, 2024
Physics
Press release
25 September, 2024

NA62 sees first significant evidence of rare process

The result paves the way for searching for signs of physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics

News
Physics
12 August, 2020

NA62 spots two potential instances of rare particle decay

The NA62 experiment has detected two candidate events for the decay of a positively charged kaon into a pion and a neutrino–antineutrino pair

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Physics
23 September, 2019

CERN experiment sees hints of a rare kaon decay

The NA62 experiment has observed a candidate event for an ultra-rare charged kaon decay

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Experiments
27 March, 2018

First results published from the new NA62

This first paper improves the limits for heavy neutral lepton production searches in kaon decays

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Experiments
22 December, 2017
Experiments
News
22 December, 2017

How universal is (lepton) universality?

New results from LHCb suggest that B+mesons decay to muons about 25% less often than they decay to electrons

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Accelerators
03 June, 2014
Accelerators
News
03 June, 2014

Tracking new physics—horse or zebra?

When you've got a discrepancy in the data, it might be time for theory and experiment to collaborate

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Experiments
09 August, 2013
Experiments
News
09 August, 2013

A new “culprit” for matter-antimatter asymmetry

The LHCb collaboration has recently observed matter-antimatter asymmetries in the decays of the B<sup>0</sup><sub>s</sub> meson

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Experiments
24 April, 2013

NA61/SHINE

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NA62

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