Wednesday 24 March 2021

 INTERESTING NEW OBSERVATIONS FROM THE LHC AT CERN, GENEVA.

New findings to be published in Nature Physics may lead to the discovery of an important new sub-atomic particle called a leptoquark.

Team leader Professor Chris Parkes from the University of Manchester commented in a BBC science report that people should not get carried away by these findings - 'we should be cautious as well as excited'.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56491033

When verified these results may lead to a revision of the standard model of all the known fundamental particles. This model predicts that a beauty quark should decay into equal numbers of electrons and muons. But the new results show more electrons than muons. It's possible that a new particle, the leptoquark, may be making it easier to produce electrons.

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