A type of disintegration of subatomic particles called kaons occurred more often than anticipated in two series of accelerator experiments performed between 1989 and 2002 at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y. This intriguing new finding, based on limited data, hints that the experiments had tapped into previously unseen types of subatomic behavior, researchers say.
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