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Searching for new physics with beauty particles

A new LHCb analysis confirms a previously observed tension with the Standard Model, but more data and improved theoretical calculations are needed to determine whether new physics is at play

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24 September, 2025

Shape-shifting collisions probe secrets of early Universe

The first high-energy collisions between light nuclei at the Large Hadron Collider confirm the unusual “bowling-pin” shape of neon nuclei and offer up a new tool to study the extreme state of matter produced in the aftermath of the Big Bang

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18 September, 2025

LHCb weighs up the Z

New measurement of the mass of the Z boson showcases the Large Hadron Collider’s growing role in precision physics

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06 June, 2025
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06 June, 2025

A new piece in the matter–antimatter puzzle

The LHCb experiment at CERN has revealed a fundamental asymmetry in the behaviour of particles called baryons

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25 March, 2025
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25 March, 2025

LHCb sheds light on two pieces of the matter–antimatter puzzle

The collaboration has found evidence of CP violation in decays of baryons and in decays of beauty hadrons into charmonium particles

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16 December, 2024

LHCb investigates the rare Σ+→pμ+μ- decay

The rarest hyperon decay ever observed

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28 June, 2024

Searching for new asymmetry between matter and antimatter

LHCb has conducted a new search for matter–antimatter asymmetry using its full data sets from the first and second runs of the LHC

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11 April, 2024

LHCb observes a new decay mode of the charmed beauty meson

The result has implications for future searches for rare beauty meson decays and for the interpretation of results from the Fermilab g-2 experiment

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04 March, 2024

LHCb observes hypertriton production in proton-proton collisions at the LHC

With its detection of hypertriton in proton-proton collisions, the LHCb experiment strengthens CERN’s role as one of the few places worldwide to study hypernuclei such as the hypertriton and its antipartner in detail

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23 August, 2023

LHCb tightens precision on key measurements of matter–antimatter asymmetry

The LHCb collaboration’s new measurements of matter–antimatter asymmetry in decays of beauty particles are the most precise yet of their kind

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13 June, 2023