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One in Ten Billion: CERN Finds Evidence of the Rarest Particle Decay | Science Made Simple

Science Made Simple · Nov 3, 2026 · 1:01

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Discover how CERN's LHCb experiment announced on 3 November 2026 the first evidence from a single experiment for a Bd meson decaying into two muons, a process the Standard Model predicts only once in ten billion beauty particles. Learn why this 42-year search matters, why 3.2 sigma counts as evidence but not yet a discovery, and how the upgraded LHCb detector combined 2024-2025 data with 2011-2018 data to catch this golden channel for new physics.

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