NOTHING makes a physicist happier than seeing a successful theory break down…

Because- as successful and complete as the theory might be- its failure means there is more to know…

In light of the latest analysis on the decay of beauty mesons, the dawn of a ‘new physics’, may be approaching. An important contribution to the analysis has been made by physicists from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ PAN).

There are some indications that physicists working at the LHC accelerator at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva are on the verge of of physics beyond the current theory describing the structure of matter. It emerges from the latest analysis of data collected by the LHCb experiment in 2011 and 2012. Physicists from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ PAN) in Kraków, Poland, have made an important contribution to the analysis.
“To put it in terms of the cinema, where we once only had a few leaked scenes from an much-anticipated blockbuster, the LHC has finally treated fans to the first real trailer,” says Prof. Mariusz Witek (IFJ PAN).