Straws in the LHC wind: Lepton universality & an update on "that bump"

As new data continue to be collected at CERN, another look at some of the straws in the wind, otherwise known as "hints of new physics", that might develop into exciting breakthroughs

A couple of months ago I wrote about an anomalous bump in data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. This is one of a few little indicators we have from the data recorded over the past years, straws in the wind which, if we are lucky, are the first signs of a new breakthrough. Another such teaser comes from the LHCb experiment at CERN, as well as the Babar experiment in California. It is a rather different kind of hint than the bump. Before describing that though, there is also a minor update on the bump.

Related: Something to watch for in the new data from the Large Hadron Collider