Matter-Antimatter Bias Seen In Fermilab Collisions

ubermiester writes "The New York Times is reporting that scientists at Fermilab have found evidence of a very small (about 1%) average difference between the amount of matter/antimatter produced in a series of particle collisions. Quoting: '[T]he team, known as the DZero collaboration, found that the fireballs produced pairs of ... muons ... slightly more often than they produced pairs of anti-muons. So the miniature universe inside the accelerator went from being neutral to being about 1 percent more matter than antimatter.' This finding invites theorists to explain why there is so much more matter than antimatter in the universe, when the Standard Model suggests that there should be equal amounts of each." Here is the paper as submitted to Physical Review (PDF). The DZero team is looking forward to getting detailed data from the LHC once it ramps up operationally.

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Re:How has antimatter responded to this bias?

[iris-n]

His manner of speech is utterly american. And it's not the first time I see this kind of rant. See the countless angry posts that appear every time global warming is mentioned.

Also, I don't claim that my conclusions about americans are scientific. It's hard to do reliable sociological experiments about these kind of things. Is just a gut feeling, antipathy, or if you prefer, rant.