B-meson decays hints at flaw in Standard Model

[BinocularSky]

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2012/06/18/babar-data-may-hint-at-new-physics/

[Ronnie67]

According to SLAC, this type of decay involves something called a B-bar meson (also called a “strange B meson“), which decays into a D meson (another type of quark-based particle), an antineutrino (a neutrino’s anti-particle) and a tau lepton (similar to an electron). That’s not supposed to happen, or at least not as frequently as discerned from the BaBar data. While the scientific “level of certainty” isn’t enough to invalidate the Standard Model at this point, SLAC says it’s “a potential sign of something amiss,” and that it’s “likely to impact existing theories, including those attempting to deduce the properties of Higgs bosons.”