B meson
BRareReal particle, observed in experiments
Fact from the codex
Contains a bottom quark. It is used to study why the universe contains more matter than antimatter.
Data
- Appears from ring
- Ring 1 · LHC ring
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mass
- 5.279 GeV
- Threshold
- 5.279 GeV
- Base rate
- 1.5 %
- Boosted by
- Vertex detector
- Resonance
- Tunable as a resonance from ring 7
- Source
- PDG 2026, Review of Particle Physics, Summary Tables (pdg.lbl.gov/2026)
27 km circumference
per collision, before threshold factor and detector boost
×1.12 frequency per level (+12 %)
