{"id":97553,"date":"2019-10-17T18:02:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T01:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/huge-cern-experiment-detects-two-extremely-rare-particle-decay-events"},"modified":"2019-10-17T18:02:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T01:02:47","slug":"huge-cern-experiment-detects-two-extremely-rare-particle-decay-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/huge-cern-experiment-detects-two-extremely-rare-particle-decay-events","title":{"rendered":"Huge CERN Experiment Detects Two Extremely Rare Particle Decay Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/huge-cern-experiment-detects-two-extremely-rare-particle-decay-events2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For several years now, physicists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) have been running a landmark experiment, recording tens of billions of particles break apart in the hopes of catching a few oddballs. And they finally have some intriguing results to share.<\/p>\n<p>This experiment, <a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/science\/experiments\/na62\">called NA62<\/a>, has researchers building and destroying pairs of quarks called kaons, looking for examples of a one-in-10 billion event that could verify some of the predictions of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-standard-model\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Standard Model\">Standard Model<\/a> of particle physics. Last year <a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/news\/news\/experiments\/cern-experiment-sees-hints-rare-kaon-decay\">they found one<\/a>. Now they\u2019ve added another possible two.<\/p>\n<p>The findings were presented at a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/event\/846814\/\">CERN Seminar<\/a> and were based on data collected in 2017; ten times the amount of data harvested the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For several years now, physicists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) have been running a landmark experiment, recording tens of billions of particles break apart in the hopes of catching a few oddballs. And they finally have some intriguing results to share. This experiment, called NA62, has researchers building and destroying pairs of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}