Recent content by Davephaelon

For an optimist that BSM physics might still be lurking in the background of the latest particle physics experiments, and their data, the 4 sigma difference from the Standard Model (SM) in the angular distribution of the decay products of ##B^0 \rightarrow \kappa \mu^- \mu^+## is encouraging...

According to the CERN Courier story: "The LHC completes its third run", the analysis of the LHCb data will stretch "well into the 2030's" But I wonder if at intervals of maybe a year, or even less, there might be partial analysis releases? https://cerncourier.com/the-lhc-completes-its-third-run/

That fixed the problem, the PDF came out fine, no errors. So the LHCb collaboration completed its third run in June, 2026 and will be analyzing its data, which is five times larger than the data set collected previously in the first two runs. I imagine physicists are eager to see what comes...

I see what the problem is. My computer didn't properly load the text. On my screen it says: "Including the differential branching fraction, the discrepancy increases to ( )." Then the next line starts with "Neglecting the bin which is closest to the charmonium resonances reduces the observed...

Thanks for responding, and the deep dive into the data. But I'm a bit confused, as I looked at the 2nd to last paragraph in the paper "Comprehensive Analysis of the [equation] Decay" (too tedious to write the equation with latex). I couldn't find the "4.1 sigma to 0.2 sigma when the bin...

In the thread B ->s ##\mu\mu## there is a Feynman diagram illustrating this interaction, posted by mfb in the very first post. I'm trying to figure out how many weak vertices there are in this decay: ##B^0_s \rightarrow \phi \mu^- \mu^+##. Is it just 2 (either end of the wiggly Z line), or 4...

Since the last activity on this thread in March, 2023, newer experiments have shown a persistent discrepancy with the Standard Model (SM) in the rare Flavor Changing Neutral Current (FCNC) of a neutral B meson decomposing to a neutral kaon and muon/anti-muon pair. So, hopefully, this small...

I never heard of the "Gallium Anomaly" until yesterday when I came across the paper titled: "Reassessing the gallium anomaly using self-consistent electron wave functions", published in Physical Review D 113, 033006 (2026). To be clear the technical discussion in the paper is way over my head...

What an awesome cat! He reminds me of another youtube cat in Australia that rides in the front handlebar basket on a bicycle, jumping off occasionally to walk on a fence railing, and smoothly returning to the bike. I'll have to search for that on youtube.

Here's a list of what I looked up: https://www.preprints.org/frontend/manuscript/7c1d70d2bc77137e7f0c57c8b861e500/download_pub https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20188 https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022EPJP..137..180D/abstract http://article.sapub.org/10.5923.j.astronomy.20221101.02.html...

In post #13 I brought up the two major competing approaches in Dark Matter (DM) research: the particle approach and modified gravity, mostly MOND. About that time I became aware of another theoretical approach to explain DM that utilizes Ricci solitons. Now, I knew about the Ricci tensor and...

Good point. I have noticed that many anomalies have been resolved over the years. But two puzzles have stood the test of time - neutrino mass deduced from their oscillations and the composition of Dark Matter (DM). Two competing approaches have dominated DM research - modified gravity...

One puzzle, possibly indicative of BTSM physics, that I was hoping would be mentioned in this thread, is the neutron decay anomaly. In arXiv:1801.01124v3 [hep-ph] 9 May 2018, the authors speculate that the 8 second difference in decay times for 'bottle' and 'beam' experiments, measuring the...

An Oldie but Goldie favorite, Jimmy Jones: Good Timin'

I've been a fan of Enya since forever. But when Don Pelletier's Enya remixes came out I was electrified. Orinoco Flow 2020 - Enya - (Trance Remix) is a particularly favorite remix. I wondered where this event took place, assuming it was someplace in Europe due to the display of many European...