# Physicists step closer to the 'Zeptoverse' after 42-year particle search

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- Published: 2026-11-03T15:40:30+00:00
- Category: Science
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Physicists have found evidence of a particle decay so rare that it is expected to occur only around once in every 10 billion "beauty" particles. The result, from the upgraded LHCb experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), follows a search spanning more than 40 years and brings physicists closer to exploring the "Zeptoverse"—an unexplored world that exists at distances of a billionth of a t

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