the rates, where both these decays are suppressed, making lifetimes of most bottom particles (~10^-12 s) somewhat longer than those of charmed particles (~10^-13 s), but shorter than those of strange particles (from ~10^-10 to ~10^-8 s).

The combination of high mass and low transition rate gives experimental collision byproducts containing a bottom quark a distinctive signature that makes them relatively easy to identify using a technique