Latest Strange B meson Stories

Physicists study rare particles to learn why the universe has more matter than antimatterUsing data from experiments performed in 2010 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland, scientists are studying rare particle decays that could explain why the universe has more matter than antimatter.Led by Sheldon Stone, a physicist at Syracuse University, a group of scientists recently published their first observations of two different...

Surprisingly large matter/antimatter asymmetry discovered in Fermilab experimentsA large collaboration of physicists working at the Fermilab Tevatron particle collider has discovered evidence of an explanation for the prevalence of matter over antimatter in the universe. They found that colliding protons in their experiment produced short-lived B meson particles that almost immediately broke down into debris that included slightly more matter than antimatter. The two types of matter...