Physics: Hunting the Penguin During BaBar's Long Run

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Hunting the Penguin During BaBar's Long Run
BaBarians are hot on the trail of penguins. The BaBar collaboration is hunting for signs of new physics - perhaps supersymmetry, or perhaps the Higgs particle - in 'penguin modes', rare channels of decay from B mesons to other particles.


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