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<p class="lead">You discovered the Oscillation of Neutral B Mesons.</p>
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<h5><b>The Oscillation of Neutral B mesons</b></h5>
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Like neutral Kaons (with which CP violation was discovered for the first time), neutral B mesons can also spontaneously turn into their own antiparticle.
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Although suspected for a long time, this was first discovered in 1987 by the ARGUS collaboration at DESY in Germany.
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With neutral B mesons, CP violation can now be studied very effectively.
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Important experiments making use of B oscillation have been the so-called B factories BaBar (in the US) and Belle (in Japan), as well as LHCb at CERN.
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These experiments have studied CP violation on a massive scale, looking at a large number of different decays of B mesons, as well as (more recently) Bs mesons and D mesons.
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So far, no deviation from the CKM mechanism by Kobayashi and Maskawa has been observed.
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<h5><b>Resources</b></h5>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B–Bbar_oscillation" target="_blank">B-Bbar on Wikipedia</a></li>
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