In the experiment with the Tevatron and the results analyzed by physicists in one of the leading accelerator centers, anomalous event.
Birth of muons, elementary particles, occurred at a considerable distance from the collision of a proton-antiproton beams. And not in pairs, as predicted, but in the form of jets.
In the published report on arxiv.org already said that it is impossible to explain the result within the existing concepts, and informal sources of new experimental data is characterized as a potential revolution in physics, wrote Lenta.ru.
Today is the Tevatron Collider with the highest energy particles. The honor he will select only the Large Hadron Collider, after repairs and running. International team of physicists (article signed by more than 400 authors from 51 research centers around the world) worked with the CDF detector has analyzed data collected in the course of many months of experiments on proton-antiproton beams.
Since the energy of the colliding protons and their antiparticles is sufficiently large (almost 2 trillion electron-volts) - in the collision process becoming visible effects associated with the birth of new particles (the kinetic energy of protons moving in the mass of the produced particles) and the interaction between quarks. In some processes, in particular, there were short-lived and decays with the birth of two mesons, particles with a b-quark.
Special detector to monitor such events and its electronic circuit allows us to trace the trajectory of muons with high accuracy to the place of their occurrence. These data have become a sensation. Muons, which should have been born at a maximum distance of a few millimeters from the place of collision of beams (more spawned two short-lived muon particle simply does not fly), flew more than an order of magnitude, and even had time to leave the vacuum pipe. In addition, there were too many for the Standard Model, it can not obtain muon jets, even in a familiar area near the collision of particle beams.
Working in the field of high energy physics, scientists are still quite accurate in the estimates. But experimenters integrity is beyond doubt, they are honestly described the results obtained. Eschewing the theoretical constructs and pointing out that work with the Tevatron and data analysis are continuing.
In addition - some theoretical explanations for the phenomenon of open (and they will follow in the coming months) can be verified and the Large Hadron Collider.
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