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The MEG experiment in Switzerland measured violation of conservation of one type of this property. It’s not CP symmetry, but in particle interactions, special triangles defined in the complex plane bound the change in this property. Mechanisms that alter this general property called FCNCs are suppressed in the Standard Model via the GIM mechanism. This property (-5[1])is conserved in QCD but not by the weak force, and the PMNS matrix relates (*) neutrino mass eigenstates to eigenstates of this quality. In beta decay, a proton becoming a neutron alters the baryon form of this attribute called isospin.. The change between the electron, muon, and tau forms of this property (10[1])are observed in neutrino oscillations. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])name this particle attribute that for quarks comes in six types and distinguishes top, down, and strange quarks. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: flavor [accept lepton flavor number, anti-prompt on strangeness or isospin before mention with “what more general property”; reject “lepton number” or any attribute mentioning “number” without “flavor”]
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Caleb OttTensei Shitara Flashcard Data KenCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country55-5
Jason ZhangShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA InterfereRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers10710
Aaron Dos RemediosModerator Can't Neg me While in Alphaas rational as the square root of two power bottoms11210
Liam KusalikYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up11210
Benjamin ChapmanSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange11510
Colin VeeversCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryTensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken13410

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