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Physicists Discover New Particle: the Bottom-most 'Bottomonium'

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 10, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (61) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Thirty years ago, particle physics delighted in discovering the "bottomonium" family—the set of particles that contain both a bottom quark and an anti-bottom quark but are bound together with different energies. ...


Baryon Model

Fermilab physicists discover 'doubly strange' particle

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 03, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (64) | comments 1

Physicists of the DZero experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a new particle made of three quarks, the Omega-sub-b (Ωb). The particle contains ...


Particle oddball surprises physicists

Particle oddball surprises physicists

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the CDF experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced yesterday that they have found evidence of an unexpected particle whose curious ...


Latest Supercomputer Calculations Support the Six-Quark Theory

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 11, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (68) | comments 4

A new calculation, reported in the January 25, 2008 issue of Physical Review Letters, confirms the six-quark theory of particle-anti-particle asymmetry. This is the first complete calculation of this phenomenon to employ ...


A 'Golden Channel' for New Physics

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 15, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (60) | comments 5

A group of physicists has dubbed a particular particle decay, the decay of the Bs meson into a neutral kaon and neutral antikaon, as a “golden channel” for new physics, suggesting that probing and studying the decay could ...


Bottom quarks reveal something of their identity

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created Jul 07, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dutch researcher Bram Wijngaarden investigated how bottom quarks are created during collisions between protons and antiprotons. Wijngaarden's measurements have contributed to a better understanding of the theory, and can ...


CDF Silicon Vertex Detector

Scientists discover exotic relatives of protons and neutrons

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created Oct 23, 2006 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (112) | comments 0

Scientists of the CDF collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today (October 23, 2006) the discovery of two rare types of particles, exotic relatives of the ...


Physicists 'See' Single Top Quarks at the Tevatron

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created Aug 22, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (79) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the world's largest fully operating particle accelerator, the Tevatron at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Illinois, have discovered convincing evidence suggesting the existence ...


Tevatron collider yields new results on subatomic matter, forces

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created Apr 17, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (20) | comments 0

Scientists of the CDF and DZero experiments at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory presented on April 15 at the annual April meeting of the American Physical Society the latest results of intriguing ...


Fermilab's CDF observes Omega-sub-b baryon

Fermilab's CDF observes Omega-sub-b baryon

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created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- At a recent physics seminar at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Fermilab physicist Pat Lukens of the CDF experiment announced the observation of a new particle, ...


What happened to the antimatter?

What happened to the antimatter?

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created Mar 23, 2006 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (79) | comments 0

Scientists of the DZero collider detector collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have announced that their data on the properties of a subatomic particle, the B_s ...


Physicists plan quark conference

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created Apr 13, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Physicists from around the world will gather at Madison's Monona Terrace from Wednesday, April 27 - Sunday, May 1, to explore the world of quarks, subatomic particles that represent the frontier of modern particle physics. The mee ...


Back-to-Back b Baryons in Batavia

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created Jun 26, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 0

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have announced the observation of the cascade b baryon-again.


'Nature or nurture' study reveals 'musical genes' (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you've ever wondered why a close group of friends might like completely different types of music, blame their genes. A study by Nokia and Kings' College London into the musical tastes of nearly 4,000 twins ...


New Physics Results from Fermilab

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created Aug 22, 2004 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists from the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory are presenting new results from experiments performed at the world's highest-energy particle accelerator during the 32nd International Conference ...