
Did CERN just discover a new particle, using penguins?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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B Plus Maisons and Penguins - Is There a Difference?
The theory says that they should be the same, or at least the mathod you have says that you should see the same a results equally. So yes, our calculations predict that there should be a very, very small, almost negligible difference between the rate of decao muons and two electrons. And this is where the penguins come in. If you draw the diagram for a b plus mazon decaying to a chaon and two laptons, it sort of looks a little bit like a penguin.
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