Physicists knock at the door of the zeptoverse
- In general, the rarer a decay, the more sensitive it is to the influence of new particles.
- Among the rarest is when a beauty quark annihilates with an oppositely charged antiquark to produce a muon and an antimuon.
- In the Standard Model of particle physics, this process occurs through a complicated set of interactions, making the decay extraordinarily unlikely: less than a few times per billion beauty particles.
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- In general, the rarer a decay, the more sensitive it is to the influence of new particles.
- Among the rarest is when a beauty quark annihilates with an oppositely charged antiquark to produce a muon and an antimuon.
- In the Standard Model of particle physics, this process occurs through a complicated set of interactions, making the decay extraordinarily unlikely: less than a few times per billion beauty particles.
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