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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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