A brief introduction to B mesons
Mesons are particles that consists of a quark and an antiquark.
B mesons are those that contain either a bottom quark or a bottom
antiquark. These mesons typically weigh about 5 times the proton,
and are highly unstable, the lifetime being of the order of
picoseconds. The observation of their decays tells us about
the fundamental interactions of matter. Indeed, these observations
were instrumental in the confirmation of the currently accepted
CKM mechanism for charge-parity (CP) violation.
(More material on this topic will appear here soon.)
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