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Equation 7 · Part 1 · From Origins to Frontier: A History of Particle Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Symbol R

R(K∗)R(K^{*})
RR

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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(K∗K^{*}) 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…

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