Cern experiment hints at new force of nature
by Ian Sample Science editor from Science | The Guardian on (#5FP4Q)
Experts reveal cautious excitement' over unstable particles that fail to decay as standard model suggests
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva have spotted an unusual signal in their data that may be the first hint of a new kind of physics.
The LHCb collaboration, one of four main teams at the LHC, analysed 10 years of data on how unstable particles called B mesons, created momentarily in the vast machine, decayed into more familiar matter such as electrons.
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