Could the Standard Model Be Wrong? Exploring Lepton Universality

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Lepton universality is a base assumption of the standard model, and if that is wrong, then so is the standard model and so is our understanding of particle physics. Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Tara Shears is Professor of Physics at the University of Liverpool. She is an experimental particle physicist, and focuses on testing the Standard Model at the high energy frontier with the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. --- A very special thank you to our Patreon supporters who help make these videos happen, especially: Andrew McGhee, Anna-Chiara Bellini, Dave Ostler, David Lindo, David Schick, Erik Shepherd, Greg Nagel, Jan Bannister, Joe Godenzi, John C. Vesey, Kellas Lowery, Lasse T. Stendan, Lester Su, Matt Townsend, Osian Gwyn Williams, Paul Brown, Radu Tizu, Rebecca Pan, Robert Hillier, Robert Reinecke and Roger Baker. --- The Ri is on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheRoyalInstitution and Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution and Tumblr: http://ri-science.tumblr.com/ Our editorial policy: http://www.rigb.org/home/editorial-policy Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://bit.ly/RiNewsletter Product links on this page may be affiliate links which means it won't cost you any extra but we may earn a small commission if you decide to purchase through the link. #StandardModel, #LeptonUniversality, #ParticlePhysics, #PhysicsExplained, #BeyondTheStandardModel

Published 2019-12-06 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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