Kobayashi-Maskawa mechanism
Mecanismo de Kobayashi-Maskawa (tercera generación de quarks)
- Date
- 1973 · confidence high
- Place
- Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Credited to
- Kobayashi Makoto and Maskawa Toshihide
- People
- 👤 Makoto Kobayashi1958–👤 Toshihide Maskawa1940–2021
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
An explanation of CP-symmetry violation that required at least six quarks when only three were known. The bottom (1977) and top (1995) quarks confirmed the prediction.
Nobel Prize in Physics 2008.
What it led to
- the discovery of the bottom and top quarks
- B-meson factories (Belle and BaBar)
- the Standard Model