Hello @lemouth,
I am so very sorry to hear this
Last week was a very emotional week, and I had to stay more away from the chain than expected. When real life decides to mess you up, it does it truly
I hope your family is well and that some semblance of peace is restored to your life. It is difficult to focus on externals when internals are not sorted. Sometimes, if you can find the energy to engage it is a therapeutic distraction.
As for your post. A rule, a principle--that seems to be what you have striven to achieve in the explanation for lepton flavour universality violation. It seems that you and your collaborators have found that the troubling anomalies (in that they defy the Standard Model predictions) have something in common.
Although much of what you discuss is beyond me (still!) yet it is a privilege to be part of the conversation. You give us all the opportunity to be witnesses to breakthroughs in a new adventure, the frontier that may one day define the 21st century (unless that will be universal war).
Wishing you peace and comfort today, and always.
AG
Thanks for passing by and asking. My family is fine, as the issue was really centred at work. We had very emotional issues to deal with in a very short amount of time (6 days). This tool my concentration away. This week, everything slowly goes back to normal, but still...
There are dozens of groups trying to explain those anomalies, but they usually consider them one by one, or at most a few by a few. Here, we wanted to build a not too complicated (and crazy) model that would explain a lot of anomalies all together. Interestingly we managed to do so by adding to the Standard Model three copies of a single new particle, one copy for each generation of Standard Model particles. This is a very simple idea, and thus appealing. We don't like much complexity ;)
Mmmh I probably wanted to discuss too many things and didn't go straight enough to the point. However, from the previous remark in your comment you managed to get the bulk of the message. As usual, feel free to ask for clarifications anywhere they should be needed. It will be my pleasure to clarify, even if I have to rewrite this post line by line ;)
Not the case at all. The process of learning physics from you is a lot like learning foreign languages (the way I learn them). So much of it is new. But, the more I listen, the more I read, the more fluent I get. As you note, the principles do come through. Isn't that what matters? My basic understanding of the thrust of your research? The rest of it slowly seeps in. Very rewarding and enjoyable. Thank you!
Getting the main point is definitely what matters. It is probably me who probably really want to push as many thing all together in one shot. :)
I will probably come back to those flavour anomalies anyway in future blogs (especially as the traction around them is still very high, and this will stay for a while). I am thus sure I will have other opportunities to share more about them.
Cheers!