Double-Quark Baryon: New Creature in Particle Zoo
Kendra Redmond, PC
If you're in need of some charming news and a break from weather-related disaster coverage, this is your story. Today, in the American Physical Society's journal Physical Review Letters, a several-hundred-member team of CERN researchers announced the first unambiguous sighting of a baryon with two heavy quarks.So what exactly does that mean?Matter, all the visible stuff around us, is made of atoms. Atoms are made of three subatomic particles: protons, neutrons, and electrons. As far as we can tell, electrons are fundamental particlesthey can't be broken down into smaller components.
If you're in need of some charming news and a break from weather-related disaster coverage, this is your story. Today, in the American Physical Society's journal Physical Review Letters, a several-hundred-member team of CERN researchers announced the first unambiguous sighting of a baryon with two heavy quarks.So what exactly does that mean?Matter, all the visible stuff around us, is made of atoms. Atoms are made of three subatomic particles: protons, neutrons, and electrons. As far as we can tell, electrons are fundamental particlesthey can't be broken down into smaller components.