CERN Physicists Spot Rare Beauty Particle Decay
Scientists at CERN, the European particle physics lab near Geneva, report evidence of one of the rarest beauty particle decays seen so far. Headlines describe it as a one-in-10-billion event, found after about 42 years of searching.
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Context: Beauty particles, also called bottom quarks, are studied at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland to understand the basic building blocks of matter. Rare decays like this help physicists test their best existing theories of particles.
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