Particle Physics - FSU Physics Department
Particle Physics - FSU Physics Department
Particle Physics - FSU Physics Department
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Kaons<br />
First observation of<br />
Kaons:<br />
• Experiment<br />
by Clifford<br />
Butler and<br />
George<br />
Rochester at<br />
Manchester<br />
• Cloud chamber exposed to cosmic rays<br />
• Left picture: neutral Kaon decay (1946)<br />
• Right picture: charged Kaon decay into muon<br />
and neutrino<br />
• Kaons first called “V” particles<br />
• Called “strange” because they behaved<br />
differently from others<br />
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