“Two of the general purpose detectors at the LHC, ATLAS and CMS, tend to keep a high profile, as they’re designed to be able to spot anything that comes out of the collisions—the Higgs, dark matter, or something even more exotic. LHCb is quite a bit more specialized, as it is designed specifically to track those collisions that include a particle that contains a bottom quark (generically, these particles are called B mesons). In doing so, it’s meant to provide the most precise test of a number of predictions made by the Standard Model; should the test show it fails, they could provide indications of supersymmetry or a mechanism that explains why our Universe is filled with matter and not antimatter.” via ars technica
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