‘Zeptoverse’: CERN scientists uncover evidence of extraordinarily rare particle decay

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‘Zeptoverse’: CERN scientists uncover evidence of extraordinarily rare particle decay  Scientists at CERN have found evidence of an extraordinarily rare particle decay using the Large Hadron Collider. The process is predicted to occur just once in every 10 billion cases, offering researchers a new way to explore the subatomic world.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2026/11/05/zeptoverse-cern-scientists-uncover-evidence-of-extraordinarily-rare-particle-decay  Euronews Next is a future-focused news section covering global innovation, science and technology with a European perspective. Our dedicated team of journalists aims to educate and inspire today’s leaders by providing them with analysis and insights into the people and organisations shaping our future

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00:00Thank you for joining us.

00:45so we're using this gigantic particle accelerator called the large hadron collider it's a 27

00:49kilometer circumference ring and what it does is accelerate particles called protons

00:54to almost a speed of light and then it smashes them into each other and in our experiment inside

00:59our lhcb experiment these protons collide and they create these particles called beauty particles

01:04so a beauty particle they don't exist in the universe normally but they're one of the

01:08fundamental building blocks that nature includes and what we're doing is we're studying how these

01:14beauty particles decay so beauty particles live for a fantastically short amount of time about one and

01:19a half trillionths of a second and then they transform into other more stable particles and

01:25what we've seen for the first time is evidence of one of the rarest of these processes

01:31so

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