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Published December 15, 1956 | public
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Cloud-Chamber Study of the Production and Decay of Strange Particles

Abstract

Out of 1242 decay events observed in a magnetic cloud chamber array triggered on penetrating showers, a total of 54 associated V-particle pairs has been obtained. All the associations observed are consistent with the "strangeness" selection rules. A statistical analysis of the numbers of double and single events has been used to obtain rough estimates of the fractions of neutral K particles and neutral hyperons which decay by "invisible" modes, and of the relative frequencies of occurrence of various production processes. The main uncertainties in the resulting values are discussed in detail.

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©1956 The American Physical Society Received 4 September 1956 The authors wish to express their appreciation to Professor C. D. Anderson for valuable discussion, and to G. Neugebauer and R. Luttermoser for assistance in the scanning and analysis of the data.

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