Tag: weak force
The weak interaction is responsible for radioactive decay, and the nuclear fusion of subatomic particles.
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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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Exotic atomic nucleus sheds light on the world of quarks
CERN and the Accelerator Laboratory in Jyväskylä, Finland, have teamed up to weigh in on the understanding of the effects of the weak force on quarks