Symmetry between up and down quarks is more broken than expected
Wojciech Brylinski was analyzing data from the NA61/SHINE collaboration at CERN for his thesis when he noticed an unexpected ...
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Quark Symmetry Shattered: Up-Down Discrepancy Grows
NA61/SHINE's lead-scintillator calorimeter. (Image: CERN) ...
A new piece in the matter–antimatter puzzle: A fundamental asymmetry in the behavior of baryons
On March 24, at the annual Rencontres de Moriond conference taking place in La Thuile, Italy, the LHCb collaboration at CERN ...
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Beauty Quarks’ Decay May Help Explain Why The Universe Isn’t Symmetrical
One paper reports on the decay of charged beauty mesons, composed of either a beauty quark and an up, down, strange or charge ...
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Scientists recall the discovery of the top quark 30 years ago at Fermilab
On March 2, 1995, the top quark discovery at Fermilab was announced by scientists on the CDF and DZero collaborations, and the sixth and final quark was added to the Standard Model. Thirty years ago, ...
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Top quarks go it alone
The top quark's enormous mass, approximately that of a gold atom, makes it the heaviest known elementary particle. The top quark was first observed 1, 2 in 1995 by the CDF and DØ collaborations ...