The kaon decay process has been explored since the 1960s – in fact, it won physicists James Cronin and Val Fitch the 1980 Nobel Prize for Physics for a 1964 experiment where they had set out to prove ...

An international collaboration of scientists has reported a landmark calculation of the decay process of a kaon into two pions, using breakthrough techniques on some of the world's fastest ...

UPTON, NY — An international collaboration of scientists has reported a landmark calculation of the decay process of a kaon into two pions, using breakthrough techniques on some of the world's ...

What was observed was the decay of a subatomic particle known as a kaon into two other particles called pions. Kaons and pions (and many other particles as well) are composed of quarks.

BREAK-UPS are often messy, and the splitting of subatomic particles into lighter, daughter particles is no exception. Now the ability to simulate a particularly famous particle decay could help ...

This precision is needed to match the “mother” kaon to the “daughter” pion that it decays to. The kaons then drift through a 65 m section of the experiment where about 10% of them will decay. At this ...

This is the case for the decay of a positively charged particle known as a kaon into another positively charged particle called a pion and a neutrino-antineutrino pair.

As part of an experiment called NA62, researchers detected and measured an ultra-rare form of decay for a subatomic particle called a kaon. This is one of the rarest interactions in particle ...

The decay of the kaon into one pion and two neutrinos had already been measured, but the earlier data was not sufficient to statistically substantiate the result. Only with the recently analyzed ...

Rosemary Fowler discovered a type of subatomic particle, the kaon—but left the university before earning her doctorate.

To measure this kaon decay, the NA62 experiment was specifically designed and built. ... It is estimated that roughly 13 in 100 billion kaons decay into a pion and two neutrinos.

Brookhaven National Laboratory issued this press release today. UPTON, NY - An international collaboration of scientists has reported a landmark calculation of the decay process of a kaon into two ...