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Mixing and Decay of Neutral Mesons

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Neutral mesons with characteristic quantum numbers, such as the strangeness S, charm C, and beauty B, have the particular property that they can mix with their antiparticles, which carry an opposite-sign quantum number which is described in this chapter.

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Kleinknecht, K. (2003). Mixing and Decay of Neutral Mesons. In: Uncovering CP Violation. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, vol 195. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44916-4_3

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