What are the consequences for this breakage? The article says current models do not easily fit the asymmetry but does not state what parts of our understanding will break if those models are wrong.
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What are the consequences for this breakage? The article says current models do not easily fit the asymmetry but does not state what parts of our understanding will break if those models are wrong.
Strong interactions are notoriously difficult to calculate from the first principles. So typically it is not done, but rather theoreticians try to guess the result and use the experimental data to partially fill the calculation gaps.
So I expect in this cases the guesses were wrong and the Standard Model will manage to explain that as well.
So far nobody expected this effect so no attempts were made to derive at least the bounds on it from the first principles. With strong interactions it may require a lot (like many man-years) of efforts, but it will be eventually done if no plausible explanation can be given using semi-experimental models.