Multiple choice

The Department of Energy's B-Factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Lab is designed to collide electron and positron beams of unequal energies and produce millions of these particles, which are commonly called:

  1. B neutrons

  2. B muons

  3. B leptons

  4. B mesons

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Explanation

The B-Factory at SLAC was specifically designed to produce B mesons in large quantities to study CP violation. Mesons are particles composed of a quark and an antiquark.