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FermiLab Observes a New Particle -- The Omega-Sub-b Baryon

07/24/2009 01:45AM

FermiLab Observes a New Particle -- The Omega-Sub-b Baryon

FermiLab physicist Pat Lukens of the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) experiment announced the observation of a new particle, the Omega-sub-b Baryon. The particle contains three quarks, two strange quarks and a bottom quark (s-s-b). It is an exotic relative of the much more common proton and has about six times the proton's mass.


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  • mclemens [Mike Clemens]
  • 07/25/2009 08:01PM
I thought I saw one once watching Saturn through the binoviewer, but it was a Canadian Goose.
<br>Mike:<br><br>Was the Canadian Goose quarking as it went by?<br><br>Guy<br><br><br><blockquote class="blockquote"><div class="italic"><i>Mike Clemens said:</i><br><br>I thought I saw one once watching Saturn through the binoviewer, but it was a Canadian Goose.</div></blockquote>


I don't know why they keep reproducing the chart of the Standard Model this way. It makes the whole thing look like a matrix with rows and columns all related. This IS true of the fermions on the left (although that table, if one includes the partial charges, should be more like an oreo cookie, with the quarks in the middle and the leptons flanking above and below), but there is NO such relation with the bosons on the right, either with the fermions, or with each other.<br><br>In fact, the boson types expand into a partially filled 4x4 matrix, with a 3x3 subset for the colored gluons (with a missing cell in the middle), and then two W, one Z, one photon, and perhaps inverted counterparts where magnetic charge shift replaces electric. Within the colored gluon square, the diagonal gets the mesonic neutral colors (R-R, B-B), while the others are used in hadrons (both matter and antimatter). All told, the colored gluons occupy 8 cells, and the 'contrast' gluons occupy the other 8, including all the other types. In addition, one can map the system to various hypersolids, but that is another story.<br><br>Jess Tauber
Jess,<br>Thanks, I find this table confusing also. Do you know of a better <u>downloadable</u> table?<br>Cyril Mundell