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BaBar experiment

The BaBar experiment was a major particle physics research project conducted at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, which ran from 1999 to 2008. Its primary goal was to study the differences between matter and antimatter by analyzing the production and decay of B mesons, which are subatomic particles. By examining these processes, scientists aimed to understand why the universe is predominantly composed of matter. BaBar's findings contributed significantly to our understanding of the Standard Model of particle physics and helped to reveal fundamental properties of the forces that govern particle interactions.