Yosef Nir

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Yosef Nir is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He completed his PhD in 1988 at the Weizmann Institute and carried out his postdoctoral research at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, California. He was a long-term visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. His research interests include CP violation, flavor physics, Higgs physics, and particle cosmology as well as the study of gender issues in physics.


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Charm and Anticharm—Not Quite the Same

Differences between the decay properties of charm-carrying mesons and those of their antiparticles may carry clues to the mystery of the missing antimatter in the Universe. Read More »

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LHCb Delivers a Key Piece in the CP-Violation Puzzle

A symmetry violation has been observed in a particle-decay process that—together with five related decays—could shed light on the matter–antimatter imbalance in the Universe. Read More »