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Possible Explanation of Anomalies in Neutral K Phenomena

Nature volume 217, pages 943–945 (1968)Cite this article

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THE experimental results usually interpreted as evidence for CP violation in neutral K decay have been found1 to be inconsistent with the values of all the relevant observables obtained from other measurements. In particular, either the KL–KS mass difference or the difference (δ2–δ0) between two pion–pion scattering phases, as determined from a phenomenological analysis1 of the former data, has an opposite sign from that obtained by independent measurements of these two quantities. (The measurements of the sign of the mass difference have been summarized in ref. 2, and the independent determination of the sign of (δ2–δ0) is backed by a considerable body of evidence; see ref. 3.)

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SPITZER, R. Possible Explanation of Anomalies in Neutral K Phenomena. Nature 217, 943–945 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217943a0

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