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The k track was the mirror image of a particle seen before by colleagues in Manchester, but the Manchester team's track decayed into two pions, not three.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2024

They would fire a proton beam into a target to produce particles called charged pions, which, swirling in a magnetic field, would decay into muons.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 27, 2024

This polarization is passed down to the pions and enhanced by the quantum interference, says Yoshitaka Hatta, a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, who was not involved in the research.

From Scientific American • Jan. 11, 2023

So, in addition to the muon or electron, a collision will typically produce a spurt of other particles such as pions, kaons, protons, and neutrons.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 28, 2022

As physicists built bigger and more ambitious machines, they began to find or postulate particles or particle families seemingly without number: muons, pions, hyperons, mesons, K-mesons, Higgs bosons, intermediate vector bosons, baryons, tachyons.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson