Central exclusive production at LHCb
Four years ago, LHCb measured the central exclusive production (CEP) of J/ψ and ψ(2S) mesons at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 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+ → π+ ν ν, demonstrating the experiment’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 Σ+ → pµ+µ– first observed in 2005 by Fermilab’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 17–29 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 χc1 and χc2 charmonium states, performed for the first time by using the newly discovered decays χc1â...
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 ...
