The world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) outside Geneva, has started operations, and scientists expect new particles to be created, perhaps ending the 30-year reign of the standard model of particle physics.
Scientists working on the EU-funded project CHARM@LHCB (Search for new physics in charm at LHCb) await new discoveries from an unexpected quarter, the LHC beauty (LHCb) experiment. Unlike A Toroidal LHC Apparatus (ATLAS) and the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), LHCb is a small experiment devoted to beauty quarks, or b quarks.
Further details: Searching for new physics with charm