This week high-energy physics published some interesting results for our fundamental knowledge of the universe. On 14th November,
LHCb published the preliminar analysis about a
possible CP-violation in charm decays (see also the
CERN's Bulletin and
Mat Charles' presentation).
The researches about CP-violations are very important because in this way we can argue the differences between matter and anti-matter. If a physics law is CP-invariant, we must write that the beahvior of matter and anti-matter is the same. But our universe is constituted by matter and we don't know
why it is so. The answer could be in CP-violation studies, like the preliminary data analyzed by LHCb team. The main goal of the experiment is the search of the properties of quark b, but he could also measure the properties of quark c. And studying the preliminary data about c decays the team find a clue of a CP-violation in a non expected channel. Following
Tommaso Dorigo and
Marco Delmastro (
english translation by Google), if the result will be confirmed by further analysis, this could be the first sign of physics beyond Standard Model.
The other possible violation is the wall of the speed of light: indeed,
OPERA experiment confirm their previous data. Yesterday, in the updated version of
their famous preprint, OPERA's researchers described a new serie of measures realized with CNGS using a short-bunch wide-spacing beam.
