: an unstable meson that occurs in both charged and neutral forms and is about 970 times more massive than an electron
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The detection challenge is to sort deuterons and antideuterons from other subatomic particles, such as pions, protons, and kaons, and to measure momenta precisely enough to observe femtoscopic correlations.
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Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
The kaons then fly down a roughly 150-meter-long vacuum tunnel.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
The kaon, a special case of meson particle, is made of one quark and one antiquark.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2020
This symmetry would be all well and good if physicists had not discovered in 1964 that the weak nuclear force doesn’t share it: Two-quark particles called neutral kaons decay in ways CP symmetry forbids.
—Quanta Magazine, 27 Nov. 2019
The Xi decays into a particle called the lambda baryon and three lighter particles, the K- (or kaon) and two pions.
—Fox News, 11 July 2017
The most famous of these two-quark particles are kaons and pions.
—Adam Mann, WIRED, 17 June 2013
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Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
The kaons then fly down a roughly 150-meter-long vacuum tunnel.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
The kaon, a special case of meson particle, is made of one quark and one antiquark.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2020
This symmetry would be all well and good if physicists had not discovered in 1964 that the weak nuclear force doesn’t share it: Two-quark particles called neutral kaons decay in ways CP symmetry forbids.
—Quanta Magazine, 27 Nov. 2019
The Xi decays into a particle called the lambda baryon and three lighter particles, the K- (or kaon) and two pions.
—Fox News, 11 July 2017
The most famous of these two-quark particles are kaons and pions.
—Adam Mann, WIRED, 17 June 2013
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“Kaon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kaon. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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