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| March 2025 |
CP violation
LHCb announced discovery of CP violation in baryon decays with a deviation from zero of 5.2 standard deviations.
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| 2022 |
Zilch
First comprehensive answer discovered regarding the symmetries of the standard Maxwell action underlying the conservation of all zilches, revealing a hidden invariance algebra of free Maxwell equations.
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| 2021 |
Magnetic braking
Researchers at the University of Birmingham published a study in Nature Astronomy using asteroseismology to confirm that older stars appear to rotate faster than expected, providing further evidence of weakened magnetic braking.
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| 2020 |
CP violation
T2K Collaboration reported first indications of CP violation in leptons through neutrino beam experiments, though the results were not yet precisely determined.
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| 2020 |
Zilch
Aghapour, Andersson, and Rosquist emphasized the open mathematical question about zilch symmetries and found symmetries of the duality-symmetric Maxwell action.
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| March 2019 |
CP violation
LHCb announced discovery of CP violation in charmed D^0 decays, with a deviation from zero of 5.3 standard deviations.
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| 2018 |
Zilch
Physical interpretation of zilches for topologically non-trivial electromagnetic fields was investigated.
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| 2016 |
Magnetic braking
Scientists at Carnegie Observatories published research suggesting stars at a stage similar to the Sun are spinning faster than traditional magnetic braking theories predicted, using a method of tracking dark spots on stellar surfaces to measure rotation.
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| 2013 |
CP violation
LHCb announced discovery of CP violation in strange B meson decays.
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| 2013 |
Zilch
Philbin provided an answer to the symmetry question specifically for optical chirality using Noether's theorem.
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| 2012 |
Zilch
A new physical insight was offered about optical chirality, explaining its relationship to the curl or time derivative of the electromagnetic field.
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| 2011 |
CP violation
LHCb experiment at CERN reported a hint of CP violation in neutral D meson decays using partial Run 1 data.
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