Cosmic inflation: Higgs says goodbye to his 'little brother'

(The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences) In the first moments after the Big Bang, the Universe was able to expand even billions of billions of billions of times faster than today. Such rapid expansion should be due to a primordial force field, acting with a new particle: inflaton. From the latest analysis of the decay of mesons, carried out in the LHCb experiment by physicists from Cracow and Zurich, it appears, however, that the most probable light in...