A team of physicists from the Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona (UAB) and the French CNRS have predicted deviations in the
probability of one of the B meson decays that have been detected experimentally
in the LHC accelerator at CERN. Confirmation of these results would be the
first direct evidence of the existence of the 'new physics', a more fundamental
theory than the current Standard Model.
The Standard Model, which has given the most complete
explanation up to now of the universe, has gaps, and is unable to explain
phenomena like dark matter or gravitational interaction between particles.
Physicists are therefore seeking a more fundamental theory that they call
"New Physics", but up to now there has been no direct proof of its
existence, only indirect observation of dark matter, as deduced, among other
things, from the movement of the galaxies.