The Curious Case of Y(4140)
CDF physicists have found a strange new particle produced rarely from B+ mesons (plus a K+, if you're keeping tabs on conservation) in proton/antiproton collisions which they're currently calling Y(4140). It's not completely unprecedented, however. Last year, CDF physicists also measured a similar particle currently called X(3872).
I thought we had that whole standard model thing pinned down. Apparently not.
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2009/03/18/particle-oddball-surprises-physicists/
I thought we had that whole standard model thing pinned down. Apparently not.
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2009/03/18/particle-oddball-surprises-physicists/
Published on March 18, 2009 at 9:16AM.
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