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Fermilab Discovers Untheorized Particle
alevy writes to mention that scientists at Fermilab have detected a new, completely untheorized particle. Seems like Fermi has been a hotbed of activity lately with the discovery of a new single top quark and narrowing the gap twice on the Higgs Boson particle. "The Y(4140) particle is the newest member of a family of particles of similar unusual characteristics observed in the last several years by experimenters at Fermilab's Tevatron as well as at KEK and the SLAC lab, which operates at Stanford through a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy. 'We congratulate CDF on the first evidence for a new unexpected Y state that decays to J/psi and phi,' said Japanese physicist Masanori Yamauchi, a KEK spokesperson. 'This state may be related to the Y(3940) state discovered by Belle and might be another example of an exotic hadron containing charm quarks. We will try to confirm this state in our own Belle data.'"
At first I read it as "unauthorized" and thought someone will have a lot of explaining to do.
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For its name, I nominate Splork!
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"This state may be related to the Y(3940) state discovered by Belle and might be another example of an exotic hadron containing charm quarks. We will try to confirm this state in our own Belle data."
That was my yearbook quote!
Comment of the year
Yeah, maybe not doom. People are already upset of the minuscule chance of LHC creating a black hole. Maybe they should name it in honor of Obama who hails from the same state (Illinois).
Call it the Hope particle.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
damn it, after all those years and all that viagra I thought I finally had my Hadron!
Our stranglets we send to you as our emissaries and you destroy them. All your base are belong to us.
Hrm. How about we call the mystery particle the "Obamaton"? Or perhaps it's a new type of quark, closely related to the 'strange' quark, the 'change' quark?
Charm my ass..
He just makes fun of the special olympics.
If it's related to the quark, it should be called Rom or Nog.
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I dunno. It might cause a reunion of The Village People, if they can figure out a way to handle the extra syllable.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
It was just a bat clinging to the inside of the accelerator.
If it's related to the quark, it should be called Rom or Nog.
Hmm. If I was a particle physicist, I'd be leaning more toward "nagus".
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Yea, but with doom in the name, maybe they could get there hands on some of that sweet DHS "anti-terrorist" money. "We gotta do more basic science research, don't want the terrorists getting there hands on the doom particle"
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They're magically suspicious.
Also they should rename the SciFi channel to Psi Phi.
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Go ahead, Gordon. Insert the specimen.
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Spacebat. In honor of.
Nobody is going to interrupt the guys working on Y(1440).
That's because Y(1440) is a particle of no real consequence... not like Y(1441), the only unknown particle capable of stabilizing a miniature black hole long enough for it to grow by 'eating' the nearby matter.
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The Ooops-Leon, which was "discovered" due to an error in reading the data. It was going to be called the upsilon. Nobel Prize winner Leon Lederman was the lead on the experiment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oops-Leon
"To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
and might be another example of an exotic hadron containing charm quarks.
And that, my friends, is why I'll stick to software engineering, thank you very much.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Uh... I authorized it. Problem?
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You Federation types are so smug.
I dunno. It might cause a reunion of The Village People, if they can figure out a way to handle the extra syllable.
"Y (Gross times Ten)"
Where's the extra syllable?
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