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Hubner Photonics – Cobolt
Hamish Johnston
We all love it when the unexpected happens in physics – which is why there was big excitement this week as hints emerged from CERN of a hypothetical particle called a leptoquark.
 
The signs appeared when particle physicists on the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider saw an unexpected difference in how beauty quarks decay.
 
The measurement was made at a statistical significance of 3.1σ – well below the 5σ level that's usually considered a discovery. But, if confirmed, the finding could point to "new physics" beyond the Standard Model.

Hamish Johnston, online editor, Physics World

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