Read article 'Hunting the muon’s forbidden decay'
Hunting the muon’s forbidden decay
The MEG II experiment is preparing to probe the muon’s flavour-violating decay to a positron and a photon with unprecedented sensitivity.
Read article 'Hunting the muon’s forbidden decay'
Read article 'Flavour anomalies continue to intrigue'
Flavour anomalies continue to intrigue
The LHCb collaboration has released a much anticipated update on its measurement of RK – a powerful test of lepton universality.
Read article 'LHCb observes CP violation in charm decays'
LHCb observes CP violation in charm decays
Met with an impromptu champagne celebration, the result represents a milestone in particle physics.
Read article 'BaBar celebrates its 25th anniversary'
BaBar celebrates its 25th anniversary
BaBar has now chalked up more than 580 papers on CP violation and many other topics.
Read article 'Charm mixing tests the Standard Model'
Charm mixing tests the Standard Model
Given LHCb’s current level of experimental precision, any sign of CP violation would be a clear indication of physics beyond the Standard Model.
Read article 'Real-time triggering boosts heavy-flavour programme'
Real-time triggering boosts heavy-flavour programme
LHCb has been flooded by b- and c-hadrons due to the large beauty and charm production cross-sections within the experiment’s acceptance.
Read article 'LHCb constrains ultra-rare muonic B decay'
LHCb constrains ultra-rare muonic B decay
At first glance, measuring fully leptonic decays seems a step too far, since there is only one charged particle as a signature and no reconstructed B-decay vertex.
Read article 'CMS weighs in on flavour anomalies'
CMS weighs in on flavour anomalies
Recent results from LHCb and other experiments appear to challenge the assumption of lepton-flavour universality.
Read article 'Doubly strange baryon observed in Japan'
Doubly strange baryon observed in Japan
Experimental evidence was first reported in the 1970s, but there has been a lingering theoretical controversy about the interpretation of both states.
Read article 'LHCb discovers two new baryons'
LHCb discovers two new baryons
By studying new hadronic resonances and their excited states, light can be shed on the mechanisms governing the dynamics of the strong force.
