Kaon
KUncommonReal particle, observed in experiments
Fact from the codex
Contains a strange quark. In 1964 kaons showed that matter and antimatter are not exact mirror images.
Data
- Appears from ring
- Ring 1 · LHC ring
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mass
- 493.7 MeV
- Threshold
- 493.7 MeV
- Base rate
- 15 %
- Boosted by
- Tracker
- Resonance
- Tunable as a resonance from ring 7
- Source
- PDG 2026, Review of Particle Physics, Summary Tables (pdg.lbl.gov/2026)
27 km circumference
per collision, before threshold factor and detector boost
×1.12 frequency per level (+12 %)
