Unexpected Results From A Recent Experiment At The Large Hadron Collider Suggest A Potential Flaw With The Standard Model Of Physics

Unexpected Results From A Recent Experiment At The Large Hadron Collider Suggest A Potential Flaw With The Standard Model Of Physics

When studying the smallest particles that make up our world, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN is quite possibly the best place to do it. During an experiment called NA62, researchers were able to detect a form of decay for a subatomic particle known as a kaon, which is believed to be extraordinarily rare. So rare that scientists estimated that it would happen fewer than once out of every ten billion kaons. This estimate is based on the standard…