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

我读本科的时候也经常和同学取笑那些不懂介子理论的老教授。

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

π零介子的同重旋单重配合物是什么?

The b meson anomaly challenges this idea.

b 介子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.

你是男人，还是男孩，是粮食，还是糟糠，是介子还是 π 介子，夸克（基本粒子之）还是庸医。

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

与此同时，理论家忙于设计扩展标准模型的方法，以试图解释这些介子的反常衰变。

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时，b 介子会以不同的速率发射电子和 μ 子。

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

不过，其他人对 b 介子衰变异常有不同的解释——种被提议称为轻夸克的新粒子。

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

lhcb 团队花了十年的大部分时间测量称为 b 介子的亚原子粒子如何衰变成更轻的粒子。

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 介子异常也不是最近可能引起瑞典皇家科学院获奖者注意的唯结果。

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.

所以我认为所有的亚原子宇宙的粒子，夸克、中微子、介子、 质子和中子有个由这些粒子组成的星系，它只不过是个小橡皮筋上的音符。

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.

这些介子衰变的种方式是将底部的反夸克转变为所谓的“奇异”反夸克和对轻子，轻子是种不同的基本粒子，包括电子及其质量更大的表亲介子。

" 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 介子内可能存在额外的相互作用，即以错误的频率将其分解。 ”Allanach 博士所说的“频率” 是指 b 介子衰变时电子和 μ 子的发射速率。