{"id":12599,"date":"2021-06-16T16:07:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T15:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=12599"},"modified":"2021-06-16T16:07:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T15:07:10","slug":"leptoquarks-class-unknown-particles-affect-higgs-boson-decay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/leptoquarks-class-unknown-particles-affect-higgs-boson-decay\/12599\/","title":{"rendered":"Leptoquarks: class of new unknown particles affect Higgs boson decay"},"content":{"rendered":"
Researchers have conducted a novel study indicating that a class of new unknown particles\u2013 known as leptoquarks \u2013 could account for the muon\u2019s magnetism as well as affecting the Higgs boson\u2019s transformation into muons.<\/p>\n
The term \u2018muon anomaly\u2019 is ubiquitous in particle physics; this is a longstanding tension with the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, seen in the magnetism of a heavier cousin of the electron called a muon, that has recently been reinforced by measurements made at Fermilab in the US.<\/p>\n
In a paper<\/a> that is set to be published in Physical Review Letters, <\/em>researchers have demonstrated that a class of new unknown particles that could account for the muon anomaly, known as leptoquarks, also affects the transformation, or \u201cdecay\u201d, of the Higgs boson into muons.<\/p>\n Leptoquarks are hypothetical particles that connect quarks and leptons, the two types of particles that make up matter at the most fundamental level. They are a prevalent explanation for the muon anomaly and other anomalies seen in certain decays of particles called B mesons.<\/p>\n In a new study, Andreas Crivellin of CERN<\/a> and his colleagues investigated how two kinds of leptoquarks that could explain the muon anomaly would affect the rare decay of the Higgs boson into muons, of which the ATLAS and CMS experiments recently obtained the first indications.<\/p>\n