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| Sam Wormley |
 Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 8:27 pm |
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Particle physicists discover new meson (May 1
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/9/5/11
Physicists may have discovered the first "hybrid meson" at the KEK
laboratory in Japan. The meson, first predicted over 25 years ago,
appears to contain a gluon in addition to the quark and antiquark that
are usually found in mesons (S-K Choi et al. 2005 Phys. Rev. Lett. 94
182002). The new meson is currently known as the Y(3940) because it has
a mass of 3940 MeV/c^2. |
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| Jan Panteltje |
| Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 5:34 am |
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On a sunny day (Thu, 19 May 2005 02:27:19 GMT) it happened Sam Wormley
<swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote in <bQSie.5916$796.3162@attbi_s21>:
[quote:c74045d99d]Particle physicists discover new meson (May 1
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/9/5/11
Physicists may have discovered the first "hybrid meson" at the KEK
laboratory in Japan. The meson, first predicted over 25 years ago,
appears to contain a gluon in addition to the quark and antiquark that
are usually found in mesons (S-K Choi et al. 2005 Phys. Rev. Lett. 94
182002). The new meson is currently known as the Y(3940) because it has
a mass of 3940 MeV/c^2.
Keep it in a box, seal it.[/quote:c74045d99d]
Don't let it get away! |
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| Greysky |
| Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 7:32 am |
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"Sam Wormley" <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote in message
news:bQSie.5916$796.3162@attbi_s21...
[quote:05761971ff]Particle physicists discover new meson (May 1
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/9/5/11
Physicists may have discovered the first "hybrid meson" at the KEK
laboratory in Japan. The meson, first predicted over 25 years ago,
appears to contain a gluon in addition to the quark and antiquark that
are usually found in mesons (S-K Choi et al. 2005 Phys. Rev. Lett. 94
182002). The new meson is currently known as the Y(3940) because it has
a mass of 3940 MeV/c^2.
Nature will create any particle it needs to in order to be able to transfer[/quote:05761971ff]
information within itself. That is what particles are for - information
carriers. If the universe needed a particle that was a hybrid containing
electrons and ham sandwiches (call it the Deli particle, needed to transfer
the subtle tastes of new sandwiches into your mouth) nature would have no
problems creating the damn thing even if it 'broke' the current laws of
physics doing so. Ultimately, as accelerator tests become more powerful and
subtle in their dimensions, so many crazy particles are going to be found as
to render the entire field of subatomic particle physics completely
useless.
Greysky |
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