Fermilab Detects "Doubly Strange" Particle 36
DynaSoar writes "While its cousin/competitor site, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, remains offline, Fermilab's Digital Hadron Calorimeter continues to produce significant results. Recently Fermilab announced discovery of the Omega-sub-b baryon, a 'doubly-strange' particle. This baryon, containing two strange quarks and one bottom quark, has six times the mass of a proton. 'The Omega-sub-b is the latest entry in the "periodic table of baryons." Baryons are particles formed of three quarks, the most common examples being the proton and neutron. ... The observation of this "doubly strange" particle, predicted by the Standard Model, is significant because it strengthens physicists' confidence in their understanding of how quarks form matter. In addition, it conflicts with a 2008 result announced by CDF's sister experiment, DZero. In August 2008, the DZero experiment announced its own observation of the Omega-sub-b based on a smaller sample of Tevatron data. This result contradicted some predictions of the Standard Model, suggesting a "new physics." The new result leads to the possibility that the prior results are not accurate.'"
Re:or (Score:3, Funny)
I always thought particles would be much more interesting if they made them in doubly.
Re:or (Score:3, Funny)
A Funny-Looking Dog... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:My Strange Quark (Score:3, Funny)
Now anyone think this story was posted just because the quark happens to be named "strange"?
Well, you certainly won't find Truth or Beauty here!
RIMSHOT!
Re:or (Score:5, Funny)
Or Fermilab's results may not be accurate.
CDF is part of Fermilab [wikipedia.org]
Obviously all experiments might not be accurate, but this gives evidence that an experiment which contradicts the current theory may have been wrong. Which is good because a "new physics" would be bad news. I mean, we already have string theory - how many more wrong theories do we need?
*ducks*
Is particle physics gay? (Score:1, Funny)
Large Hadron Collider - easily typoed as large hardon collider
Strange Quarks - what's next, queer quarks for muster mark?
Bottom (and top) quarks - those doesn't even need any spin.
Yeah, yeah, small minds are easily amused. Mod me down for being a big hadron.