Rare Decay of B Meson (IMAGE)

The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences

Rare Decay of B Meson

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Extremely rare Bs0 meson decay into two muons, registered in 2016 at the LHCb detector at CERN near Geneva. The enlargement at the bottom shows that the point of decay was 17 mm from the collision of two protons.

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Source: IFJ PAN / CERN / The LHCb Collaboration

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