Sentences with phrase «pentaquark particles»
«CERN's LHCb experiment reports observation of exotic pentaquark particles.»
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Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva spotted signs of the «pentaquark» particles while studying the decay of...
«The pentaquark is not just any new particle,» said LHCb spokesperson Guy Wilkinson.
Despite being predicted in the 1960s, the pentaquark is a particle so elusive even the world's largest physics experiment could only discover it by accident
Today, the LHCb experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider has reported the discovery of a class of particles known as pentaquarks.
No such particle has ever been seen; however, a five - part pentaquark was discovered in July (see «New Matter Detected at Japanese Accelerator,» page 45).
But in July, Takashi Nakano of Osaka University reported that he had detected a pentaquark, a bizarre subatomic particle built from five quarks: two ups, two downs, and an antiquark.
This latest discovery comes on the heels of the first observation of a pentaquark — a five - quark particle — announced last year by the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.
Early this century, approximately 10 experiments found hints of evidence for the pentaquark, a particle consisting of five quarks, when no other known particle had more than three.