Equation 6 · Part 2 · From Origins to Frontier: A History of Particle Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Symbol K
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K is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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K is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Full expression→Symbol K→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
Flavor physics produced the decade’s most closely watched near-misses. Between roughly 2014 and 2021, LHCb’s measurements of B -meson decays into muon pairs versus electron pairs — the “ R(K) ” and R() ratios that the Standard Model predicts should equal one if the model’s lepton universality holds — showed persistent tensions with that prediction, at one point reaching a statistical significance of 3.1 standard deviations and drawing serious theoretical attention as a possible sign of new particles coupling differently to muons than to electrons [ 7 ] . In December 2022, an improved, higher-statistics LHCb analysis brought the measured ratios back into agreement with the Standard Model…
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