flavour physics

The Standard Model counts six flavours of quarks and six flavours of leptons.

6 results

The delicate balance of lepton flavours

New ATLAS measurement of lepton flavour universality, a key feature of the Standard Model, in decays of the W boson is more precise than all previous measurements combined

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Physics
26 March, 2024
Physics
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26 March, 2024

CMS sets new bounds on the mass of leptoquarks

The bounds are some of the tightest yet on the existence of third-generation leptoquarks

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Physics
18 December, 2020

ATLAS result addresses long-standing tension in the Standard Model

A new ATLAS measurement of a key feature of the Standard Model known as lepton flavour universality suggests that a previous discrepancy measured by the LEP collider in W boson decays may be due to a fluctuation

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Physics
29 July, 2020

LHCb explores the beauty of lepton universality

For the first time, LHCb uses beauty baryons to test this key principle of the Standard Model

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Physics
16 January, 2020

First observation of a heavy flavoured spin-3 particle

The LHCb experiment has presented the results of a study of strange beauty meson B0s decay into an anti-charm meson D0, a K- meson and a π+ meson

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Experiments
15 July, 2014

A new “culprit” for matter-antimatter asymmetry

The LHCb collaboration has recently observed matter-antimatter asymmetries in the decays of the B<sup>0</sup><sub>s</sub> meson

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Experiments
24 April, 2013