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A kaon is any of a group of four mesons distinguished by a quantum number called strangeness.
In the Standard Model of particle physics, the odds of this decay occurring are less than one in 10 billion
The result paves the way for searching for signs of physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics
The NA62 experiment has detected two candidate events for the decay of a positively charged kaon into a pion and a neutrino–antineutrino pair
The NA62 experiment has observed a candidate event for an ultra-rare charged kaon decay
This first paper improves the limits for heavy neutral lepton production searches in kaon decays
New results from LHCb suggest that B+mesons decay to muons about 25% less often than they decay to electrons
When you've got a discrepancy in the data, it might be time for theory and experiment to collaborate
The LHCb collaboration has recently observed matter-antimatter asymmetries in the decays of the B<sup>0</sup><sub>s</sub> meson