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Did CERN just discover a new particle, using penguins?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Universe Is Not Preferring Muons to Electrons

We have these b plus maisons that are made, and then we watch and see what happens. And so in particular here, they're watching to see if these particles decay into a chaon and then two muons, or a chaon and two electrons. We think that that should happen exactly the same rate, that the universe shouldn't prefer muons to electrons. So it would be interesting and weird and a surprise if this b plus mazon likes to decay to muon more often, or like to decay to electrons more often. That would show a weird preference for one kind of particle over the other - maybe a hint that something new is going on.

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