Tag: Beauty quark
A beauty quark is a quark with a charge of -⅓ and a mass of approximately 10,000 times that of an electron.
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Studying beautiful flavour transitions
Studying rare processes is part and parcel of particle physics, providing stringent tests of the Standard Model. At the recent International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP), the CMS and LHCb Collaborations presented their latest research into one such process: the transformation of a beauty quark into a strange quark, a muon and the oppositely charged antimuon (b→sμ+μ–). Flavour transitions – when
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CMS explores subtle matter–antimatter difference using beauty mesons
The CMS experiment uses its largest sample of beauty mesons to date to perform a high-precision test of subtle differences between matter and antimatter
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ALICE’s upgraded detector showcases its beauty
The ALICE Collaboration has performed the first LHC measurement of beauty-quark production in a previously unexplored momentum range
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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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The measurement of a lifetime
New ATLAS measurement of the lifetime of the electrically neutral beauty meson is the most precise to date