# Flavour physics

### Central exclusive production at LHCb

Four years ago, LHCb measured the central exclusive production (CEP) of J/Ïˆ and Ïˆ(2S) mesons at a centre-of-mass energy of 7â€‰TeV (CERN Courier March 2014 p7). In CEP, two incoming protons emerge i...

### Standard Model gets annual check up at Moriond

The annual conference is an opportunity to review the progress taking place over the breadth of particle physics.

### First hints of ultra-rare kaon decay

The NA62 collaboration at CERN has found a candidate event for the ultra-rare decay K+â€‰â†’â€‰Ï€+â€‰Î½â€‰Î½, demonstrating the experimentâ€™s potential to test heavily-suppressed corners of the Stand...

### Charm oscillations precisely measured by LHCb

Direct searches for particles beyond the Standard Model (SM) have so far come up empty handed, but perhaps physicists can get luckier with indirect searches. Quantum mechanics allows neutral flavoured...

### Beauty quarks test lepton universality

Recent meassurements of the decays of B mesons hint at slight deviations form lepton universality

### Rare hyperon-decay anomaly under the spotlight

The LHCb collaboration has shed light on a long-standing anomaly in the very rare hyperon decay Î£+â€‰â†’â€‰pÂµ+Âµâ€“ first observed in 2005 by Fermilabâ€™s HyperCP experiment. The HyperCP team found ...

### Particle physics meets quantum optics

The sixth International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP) took place on 17â€“29 August in Kolymbari, Crete.

### Implications of LHCb results brought into focus

Seventh workshop devoted to the implications of LHCb measurements

### Novel charmonium spectroscopy at LHCb

The LHCb collaboration has published the result of precision mass and width measurements of the Ï‡c1 and Ï‡c2 charmonium states, performed for the first time by using the newly discovered decays Ï‡c1â...

### LHCb digs deeper into lepton-flavour universality

The LHCb collaboration has released yet another result in its campaign to test lepton-flavour universality. Following anomalies already detected in the rate that B mesons decay into muons compared to ...