"Cascade B" Particle Discovered At Fermilab

pnotequalsnp writes to note that physicists at Fermilab have discovered a new heavy particle called the Cascade B. This is the first particle ever seen that is made up of quarks representing all three quark families. A team of 610 physicists from 88 institutions reported the discovery in a paper submitted to Physical Review Letters last week. This must be the discovery that triggered rumors that the Higgs had been found.

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Something other?

[mapkinase]

The odds of the observed signal being due to something other than the cascade b are estimated to be one in 30 million.

"Something other"?

Re:What's the significance?

[The_Wilschon]

Click the picture. ;-) I couldn't, because the giant popup boxes that appeared every time I moused over anything on the page gave me an aneurysm before I could get there. One of the worst pages I've seen in a while.