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Evidence for the 2π Decay of the K20 Meson

J. H. Christenson, J. W. Cronin, V. L. Fitch, and R. Turlay
Phys. Rev. Lett. 13, 138 – Published 27 July 1964
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  • Received 10 July 1964

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.13.138

©1964 American Physical Society

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Letters from the Past - A PRL Retrospective

2008 marked PRL’s 50th anniversary. As part of the celebrations a collection of milestone Letters was started. The collection contains Letters that have made long-lived contributions to physics, either by announcing significant discoveries, or by initiating new areas of research.

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A 1964 experiment on an unusual particle showed a violation of symmetry and led to the conclusion that matter and antimatter are not quite equivalent.

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J. H. Christenson, J. W. Cronin*, V. L. Fitch*, and R. Turlay

  • Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

  • *A. P. Sloan Foundation Fellow.
  • On leave from Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire à Haute Energie, Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires, Saclay, France.

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Vol. 13, Iss. 4 — 27 July 1964

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