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Large Hadron Collider Detects Two Previously Unknown Particles, and Hints of a Third

posted by takyon on Thursday October 04 2018, @04:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the GO-SIGMA-BETA dept.

realDonaldTrump writes:

Atom Smasher Detects Hints of New Unstable Particle

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest atom smasher, just discovered at least two previously unknown particles.

The 17-mile (27 kilometers) underground ring near Geneva recently discovered two baryons and a hint of another particle, according to a statement from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which runs the LHC. Baryons are fundamental subatomic particles that are each made up of three quarks. The quarks, in turn, are even smaller particles that come in different "flavors": up, down, top, bottom, strange and charm.

[...] The first, named Σb(6097)+, is made up of one bottom quark and two up quarks, while the second, named Σb(6097)-, is made up of one bottom quark and two down quarks. [...] As for the third potential particle, the researchers discovered only hints that it exists. Named Z sub c-(4100), this particle could be a weird meson, a type of unstable particle that briefly flits into existence during high-energy collisions and that consists of two quarks and two antiquarks.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @04:52PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @04:52PM (#744174)

    realDonaldTrump writes:

    Since when has this character displayed an interest in particle physics?

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday October 04 2018, @05:38PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday October 04 2018, @05:38PM (#744203) Journal

    He read "Large Hard-on Collider" and wanted to make it clear that hand size and penis size are in no way correlated and that he had no problems with either, nope, nosirre, ignore that lying skank Stormy Daniels...

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  • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Thursday October 04 2018, @06:17PM (1 child)

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 04 2018, @06:17PM (#744223) Journal

    People with parody accounts but no real accounts are the real criminals.

    • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Friday October 05 2018, @03:02AM

      by MostCynical (2589) on Friday October 05 2018, @03:02AM (#744478) Journal

      His other account is AC

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  • (Score: 2) by exaeta on Friday October 05 2018, @12:24AM

    by exaeta (6957) on Friday October 05 2018, @12:24AM (#744401) Homepage Journal

    Somehow I have a feeling "real Donald Trump" isn't really Donald Trump. Just saying...

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