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New Baryons Discovered at CERN

2 pointsby 0xbadf00dabout 5 years ago

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gus_massaabout 5 years ago
The interesting part if you are not interested in the business as usual part of particle physics is:<p>&gt; <i>10 March 2020: B0 → K</i> μ+ μ-: more data confirm old puzzle.*<p>&gt; <i>Compared with the previous LHCb results, the overall tension with the Standard Model (SM) is observed to mildly increase.</i><p>&gt; <i>However, the global fit to several angular observables shows that the overall tension with the SM increases from 3.0 to 3.3σ.</i><p>[Note that the &quot;increase&quot; in the second quote and the &quot;increase&quot; in the third quote are in different comparisons.]<p>The idea is that the transformation in the experiment is actually B0 → &lt;something&gt; → K* μ+ μ- , where there are many known versions of &lt;something&gt;. But they got a weird result, so there &quot;must&quot; be some unknown versions of &lt;something&gt;.<p>This is 3σ, that means that a random fluke has less than .3% of probability of producing a similar looking weird data. The problem is that they (and other groups) are running hundred of experiments, so there is a chance that this is just good&#x2F;bad luck instead of a unknown &lt;something&gt;.<p>A 3σ is unusual enough to remember, and to try to explain it with new theories, but don&#x27;t get to attached to a 3σ resonance because they may fade away.