When I was an undergraduate, we made fun of the old professors who didn't understand the theory of mesons.

我读本科也经常和同学取笑那些不懂理论老教授。

" what is the iso-spin singlet partner of the pi-zero meson? "

π零同重旋单重配合物是什么?

The b meson anomaly challenges this idea.

b 异常挑战了这个想法。

Something to separate the men from the boys, the wheat from the chaff, the mesons from the pi-mesons, the quarks from the quacks.

来看看你们是男人，还是男孩，是粮食，还是糟糠，是还是 π ，夸克（基本粒之一）还是庸医。

Theoreticians, meanwhile, have been busy devising ways to extend the Standard Model to try to explain those mesons' anomalous decays.

与此同，理论家们一直忙于设计扩展标准模型方法，以试图解释这些反常衰变。

In interacting with this force, b mesons would therefore emit electrons and muons at different rates.

因此，在与这种力相互作用，b 会以不同速率发射电和 μ 。

Others, though, have a different explanation for the b meson decay anomaly—a proposed new particle called a leptoquark.

不过，其他人 b 衰变异常有不同解释——一种被提议称为轻夸克新粒。

The lhcb team has spent the best part of a decade measuring how subatomic particles known as b mesons decay into lighter particles.

lhcb 团队花了十年大部分间来测量称为 b 亚原粒如何衰变成更轻粒。

Nor is the b meson anomaly, as it is known, the only recent result that might attract the attention of the prize-awarders at Sweden's Royal Academy of Science.

众所周知，b 异常也不是最近可能引起瑞典皇家科学院获奖者注意唯一结果。

And so, we think that all the subatomic particles of the universe, the quarks, the neutrinos, the mesons, the protons, the neutrons, there's a galaxy of these particles, they're nothing but musical notes on a tiny rubber band.

所以我们认为所有亚原宇宙粒，夸克、中微、、 质和中有一个由这些粒组成星系，它们只不过是一个小橡皮筋上音符。

One way in which these mesons decay is by the transformation of the bottom antiquark into a so-called " strange" antiquark and a pair of leptons, a different class of fundamental particle that includes electrons and their more massive cousins, muons.

这些衰变一种方式是将底部反夸克转变为所谓“奇异”反夸克和一轻，轻是一种不同基本粒，包括电及其质量更大表亲。

" What it means is there could be additional interactions within the b meson, that's breaking it up with the wrong frequencies." By " frequencies" , Dr Allanach means the rates at which electrons and muons are emitted when b mesons decay.

“这意味着 b 内可能存在额外相互作用，即以错误频率将其分解。 ”Allanach 博士所说“频率” 是指 b 衰变电和 μ 发射速率。