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SELEX at Fermilab Discovers New Particle

Posted by michael on from the ad-infinitum dept.

sellthesedownfalls writes "Scientists at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will announce on Friday, June 18 the observation of an unexpected new member of a family of subatomic particles called 'heavy-light' mesons. The new meson, a combination of a strange quark and a charm antiquark, is the heaviest ever observed in this family, and it behaves in surprising ways -- it apparently breaks the rules on decaying into other particles. See the Fermilab Press Release."

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  1. In other news... by path_man · · Score: 1, Redundant

    ...researchers at the famed Max Planck institute in Germany have found other seemingly contradictory particles such as:

    the Government Assistance particle

    the Military Intelligence particle

    the Express Mail particle

    and the ever-elusive Flat Breasted particle

    The chief scientist of the oxymoron division was quoted as saying, "These particles make about as much sense as screen doors in submarines."

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