Scientists detect signals at the smallest scale ever explored
The decay occurred in about 1 in 10 billion beauty particles and reached 3.2 sigma significance, researchers said.
- 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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Video. ‘Zeptoverse’: CERN scientists uncover evidence of extraordinarily rare particle decay
Video. Scientists at CERN have found evidence of an extraordinarily rare particle decay using the Large Hadron Collider. The process is predicted to occur just once in every 10 billion cases, offering researchers a new way to explore the subatomic world.
After four decades of searching, a subatomic process offers new clues about the particles and dark matter of the cosmos.
Researchers from the United Kingdom found evidence of the unprecedented decomposition of a subatomic particle in an experiment of the CERN's Great Hadron Collider. These results could open the door to the zeptoverse, which would allow solving mysteries like dark matter. It turns out that experts working on the LHCb experiment, have analyzed the quarks beauty ... Continue reading "They capture first signs of the possible existence of the zeptover…
Scientists have recorded unique signals on the Hadron Collider of Physics coming closer to finding out how the universe works: on the Great Hadron Collider, scientists have explored phenomena 100 billion times smaller than atoms; the results of the experiment may be the basis of a new theory that would explain the fundamental laws of nature; RBC-Ukraine informs them by referring to the BBC; the Zeptovers study and the search for dark matter were…
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