Now, physicists who are part of the NA62 collaboration—a group dedicated to studying rare kaon decays—has announced at a CERN seminar that their team successfully documented this “ultra rare ...

"Chicago played a major role in each of the key advancements in kaon physics -- every single one," said Yau Wah, professor in physics. Wah is co-spokesperson of the K0 at Tokai (KOTO) experiment ...

The “golden channel” decay of subatomic particles called kaons could break or confirm the standard model of particle physics.

Nearly 75 years after the puzzling first detection of the kaon, scientists are still looking to the particle for hints of physics beyond their current understanding. All Clifford Charles Butler and ...

Studying kaon decay. Kaons are generated when a high-intensity proton beam from CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) ...

Now that the decay channel has been established, the researchers can move on to seeking any deviations that might indicate new physics. The number of kaon to pion and neutrino/antineutrino decays ...

In one important but very rare decay, a positive kaon – a bound state of an up quark and a strange antiquark — decays into a positive pion plus a neutrino and an antineutrino. The Standard Model ...

Scientists have discovered an ultra-rare particle decay process, opening a new path to find physics beyond our understanding of how the building blocks of matter interact. Scientists at CERN have ...

Scientists at CERN just made one of the rarest observations in particle physics to-date, measuring an ultra-rare form of kaon decay.

This meddling is what allows the kaon to produce a pion and two neutrinos, the process NA62 seeks. The Standard Model—the best theory scientists have—predicts this will happen precisely eight ...

A British university has bestowed an honorary doctorate of science on 98-year-old Rosemary Fowler, 75 years after she made a discovery that helped revolutionize particle physics.. In 1948, Fowler ...

In 1948 Rosemary Fowler’s findings at the University of Bristol paved the way for critical discoveries that would rewrite the laws of physics. Her discovery of the Kaon particle helped lead to a ...