Scientists detect signals at the smallest scale ever explored
The result could help scientists probe dark matter and refine theories of the universe, researchers said, after analyzing 10 years of collision data.
- On Tuesday, November 3, 2026, a UK-led team of scientists announced discovery of the 'Zeptoverse,' a subatomic world about 100 billion times smaller than an atom, using the Large Hadron Collider .
- Researchers observed a rare event where a beauty quark decays into two muons, occurring only once in 10 billion instances, providing a unique method to study particles within the Zeptoverse.
- "We're knocking on the door of this zeptoverse," said Dr. Harry Cliff of Cambridge University, whose team combed through 10 years of collision data to identify the 3.2 sigma finding.
- With the Future Circular Collider expected to come online around 2045, future experiments may help explain fundamental mysteries by hunting for particles hiding at even smaller scales.
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Physicists step closer to the 'Zeptoverse' after 42-year particle search
Physicists have found evidence of a particle decay so rare that it is expected to occur only around once in every 10 billion "beauty" particles. The result, from the upgraded LHCb experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), follows a search spanning more than 40 years and brings physicists closer to exploring the "Zeptoverse"—an unexplored world that exists at distances of a billionth of a trillionth of a meter, or a "zeptometer," where ne…
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anews.com.trRare particle decay could offer clues to dark matter and origins of matter in the universe, researchers say
Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland have for the first time observed how a particle containing a bottom quark decays into two muons. The new discovery offers a new opportunity to test the Standard Model of particle physics and search for previously unknown forces of nature.
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