DECRYPTION – The reanalysis of data from the LHC accelerator at CERN did not confirm the anomaly glimpsed last year.
Physicists are like dissipated children: they love nothing more than breaking their toys. In this case, it is the Standard Model of physics, a vast theoretical edifice which describes the variegated fauna of elementary particles and their interactions, which for 50 years has been the target of their repeated assaults. Without success so far. If they had thought last year that they had finally managed to chip away at a corner of it, they had to face the facts last week: the serious anomaly they thought they had highlighted has simply evaporated. The mirage has vanished.
“There is obviously a form of disappointment, but above all we are happy and happy to have finalized this important result”admits Yasmine Amhis, researcher at the IJCLab, in Orsay, and physics coordinator of the CERN LHCb experiment, which is at the origin of this disappointed hope. “The new analysis we conducted, which is more robust and adds additional experimental points, did not confirm…
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