Posted on 04/20/2017 10:52:44 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Ever since the discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012, the Large Hadron Collider has been dedicated to searching for the existence of physics that go beyond the Standard Model. To this end, the Large Hardon Collider beauty experiment (LHCb) was established in 2016, specifically for the purpose of exploring what happened after the Big Bang that allowed matter to survive and create the Universe as we know it.
Since that time, the LHCb has been doing some rather amazing things. This includes discovering five new particles, uncovering evidence of a new manifestation of matter-antimatter asymmetry, and (most recently) discovering unusual results when monitoring beta decay. These findings, which CERN announced in a recent press release, could be an indication of new physics that are not part of the Standard Model.
In this latest study, the LHCb collaboration team noted how the decay of B0 mesons resulted in the production of an excited kaon and a pair of electrons or muons. Muons, for the record, are subatomic particles that are 200 times more massive than electrons, but whose interactions are believed to be the same as those of electrons (as far as the Standard Model is concerned).
This is what is known as “lepton universality”, which not only predicts that electrons and muons behave the same, but should be produced with the same probability – with some constraints arising from their differences in mass. However, in testing the decay of B0 mesons, the team found that the decay process produced muons with less frequency. These results were collected during Run 1 of the LHC, which ran from 2009 to 2013.
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
If the Standard Model is destroyed, then I suppose that Supermodels will rule the world? I’m OK with that.
It wasn’t you, you just excerpted. But the actual article DOES say “Large Hardon Collider.”
LOL
the Large Hardon Collider
I hate it when my Large Hardon Collider breaks down.
Especially before a Big Bang.
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Sounds like they are a step closer to the infinite improbability drive.
Cialis commercial?
ROFL!!!!
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Especially before a Big Bang.
LOL
Fascinating, yet strangely frightening.
Fascinating, yet strangely frightening.
I had to ping you because you were mentioned in the article.
;^)
5.56mm
We might end up with plus sized models. So be careful what you ask for.
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me too...
Sounds totally unconstitutional to me.
We could also get moron neutrinos.
CERN experimenting with physics they don’t understand has already thrown us into an alternate universe where America spies on it’s own citizens and Russia lectures us on Christian values.
Now it seems they’ve partly corrected that, as America has become the good guys again with Trump leading and Russia is arguably the bad guy supporting Syria using gas weapons.
But personal relationships are far from normal. Don’t ask.
They “find” particles that don’t occur naturally. So what do they actually find?
(They don’t find them, they create them.)
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