{"id":244416,"date":"2026-09-23T01:31:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T06:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/what-happens-when-a-particle-breaks-apart-cenke-xu-ucsb"},"modified":"2026-09-23T01:31:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T06:31:38","slug":"what-happens-when-a-particle-breaks-apart-cenke-xu-ucsb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/what-happens-when-a-particle-breaks-apart-cenke-xu-ucsb","title":{"rendered":"What happens when a particle breaks apart? | Cenke Xu (UCSB)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tgsm5v8DoCA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The purpose of these Blackboard Talk lunches is for the science of one program to be explained to the other KITP program participants. These talks lead to cross program communications that work towards our goal of maintaining the unity of theoretical physics.<\/p>\n<p>Connect with KITP everywhere:<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@kitp_ucsb\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/@kitp_ucsb<\/a>.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/kitp-ucsb.bsky.social\">https:\/\/kitp-ucsb.bsky.social<\/a>.<br \/> \u25b6 \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kitp_ucsb\">@kitp_ucsb<\/a>.<br \/> \/ kavli-institute-for-theoretical-physics.<\/p>\n<p>The position of the KITP is that ownership and copyright of all online material \u2014 slides, text, audio, video, and podcasts \u2014 belongs to the author. KITP is providing dissemination for these materials but does not claim ownership. Any person citing these materials for scholarly purposes should provide an appropriate scholarly reference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of these Blackboard Talk lunches is for the science of one program to be explained to the other KITP program participants. These talks lead to cross program communications that work towards our goal of maintaining the unity of theoretical physics. Connect with KITP everywhere: https:\/\/twitter.com\/@kitp_ucsb. https:\/\/kitp-ucsb.bsky.social. \u25b6 \/ @kitp_ucsb. \/ kavli-institute-for-theoretical-physics. The position [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}