The kaon, a subatomic particle, decays into a pion, accompanied by a neutrino-antineutrino pair. This phenomenon is so rare that the Standard Model predicts less than one event per 10 billion kaons.

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

The new calculation gives a more accurate prediction for the likelihood with which kaons decay into a pair of electrically charged pions vs. a pair of neutral pions.

What if the odds of an event occurring were about one in 10 billion? This is the case for the decay of a positively charged particle known as a kaon into another positively charged particle called ...

What if the odds of an event occurring were about one in ten billion? This is the case for the decay of a positively charged particle known as a kaon into another positively charged particle called a ...

In particular, it had shown that the long-lived neutral kaon can decay into two pions, which implied the violation of CP symmetry – a discovery that took the physics community by surprise. The news ...

An international team of scientists has, for the first time, simulated the decay process of a kaon into two pions with extreme precision, using some of the fastest supercomputers available today. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

Short-lived particle questions long-lived theory Studies of the decay of kaons hint at possible flaws in standard model of particle physics.