2 things stand out about this article: The unbalanced formation of muons in testing the decay of B0 mesons, the team found that the decay process produced muons with less frequency. Something about this rings a bell with some LENR results but I can't find it.
Secondly, the investigation of beauty was in the Large Hardon Collider beauty experiment <http://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public/> (LHCb) . The hardon typo is in the original article, and it's kinda funny. ;-) On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 3:24 PM, Kevin O'Malley <[email protected]> wrote: > CERN Declares War On The Standard Model > <https://www.universetoday.com/135091/cern-declares-war-standard-model/#> > Article Updated: 20 Apr , 2017by Matt Williams > <https://www.universetoday.com/author/mwill/> > https://www.universetoday.com/135091/cern-declares-war-standard-model/ > > Ever since the discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012 > <https://www.universetoday.com/96132/higgs-like-particle-discovered-at-cern/>, > 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 > <http://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public/> (LHCb) was established in > 1995, 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 > <https://www.universetoday.com/134573/large-hadron-collider-discovers-5-new-gluelike-particles/>, > uncovering evidence of a new manifestation of matter-antimatter asymmetry > <http://home.cern/about/updates/2017/01/new-source-asymmetry-between-matter-and-antimatter>, > and (most recently) discovering unusual results when monitoring beta decay. > These findings, which CERN announced in a recent press release > <http://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public/Welcome.html#RKstar>, 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 B > 0mesons 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). > > <https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/lhcb_collaboration.jpg> > > *The LHCb collaboration team. Credit: lhcb-public.web.cern.ch > <http://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch>* > > 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. > > The results of these decay tests were presented on Tuesday, April 18th, at > a CERN seminar > <https://indico.cern.ch/event/580620/attachments/1442409/2226501/cern_2017_04_18.pdf>, > where members of the LHCb collaboration team shared their latest findings. > As they indicated during the course of the seminar, these findings are > significant in that they appear to confirm results obtained by the LHCb > team during previous decay studies. > > This is certainly exciting news, as it hints at the possibility that new > physics are being observed. With the confirmation of the Standard Model > (made possible with the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012), > investigating theories that go beyond this (i.e. Supersymmetry > <https://indico.cern.ch/event/580620/attachments/1442409/2226501/cern_2017_04_18.pdf>) > has been a major goal of the LHC. And with its upgrades completed in 2015, > it has been one of the chief aims of Run 2 (which will last until 2018). > <https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/lhcb7.png> > > *A typical LHCb event fully reconstructed. Particles identified as pions, > kaon, etc. are shown in different colours. Credit: LHCb collaboration* > > Naturally, the LHCb team indicated that further studies will be needed > before any conclusions can be drawn. For one, the discrepancy they noted > between the creation of muons and electrons carries a low probability value > (aka. p-value) of between 2.2. to 2.5 sigma. To put that in perspective, > the first detection of the Higgs Boson occurred at a level of 5 sigma. > > In addition, these results are inconsistent with previous measurements > which indicated that there is indeed symmetry between electrons and muons. > As a result, more decay tests will have to be conducted and more data > collected before the LHCb collaboration team can say definitively whether > this was a sign of new particles, or merely a statistical fluctuation in > their data. > > The results of this study will be soon released in a LHCb research paper. > And for more information, check out the PDF version of the seminar > <https://indico.cern.ch/event/580620/attachments/1442409/2226501/cern_2017_04_18.pdf> > . >
