B-meson

subatomic particle

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CP violation

electron storage rings

  • schematic diagram of a linear proton resonance accelerator
    In particle accelerator: Electron storage rings

    …so new short-lived particles (specifically, B-mesons) are created in motion; this gives them an apparently longer lifetime in the laboratory owing to the effect of time dilation in the theory of special relativity.

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