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Particle physics

a mechanism that suppresses flavor-changing neutral currents through cancellation between quark contributions, which predicted the charm quark.

In particle physics, GIM mechanism refers to a mechanism that suppresses flavor-changing neutral currents through cancellation between quark contributions, which predicted the charm quark. This meaning comes from Glashow (1970) in Physical Review D.[1]

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References

Glashow, S. L., Iliopoulos, J., & Maiani, L. (1970). Weak Interactions with Lepton-Hadron Symmetry. Physical Review D, 2(7), 1285-1292. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.2.1285

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