Thursday, March 15, 2007

Meson Messes With The Standard Model

Looks like they may have discovered another meson turning into its antiparticle before decaying. A new report to be published in PRL out of SLAC shows that the neutral D-meson decays into its antiparticle before it decays away. It appears that this was not expected to occur for this particular meson due to the way its quark constituents are "linked".

Obviously, they need to do some serious thinking on what this means.

Zz.

4 comments:

Kea said...

Hi ZapperZ! I just found your blog. Good posts. Actually on physics. Yes, these pesky SM problems really need sorting out....

ZapperZ said...

Thanks Ken. Glad you like it and found it. I would love to hear from you if you have anything to add to this particular observation.

Zz.

Kea said...

Er....in my experience people with boobs aren't usually named Ken.

ZapperZ said...

Oops.. Sorry Kea. I sometime type too fast, especially when I am in a hurry to leave the house.

I still very much appreciate hearing from you.

Zz.