#mesons — Public Fediverse posts
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Working on my next block for #PrinterSolstice for the prompt “even.” This is particle physicist Bibha Chowdhuri (1913-1991) known for her work on cosmic rays, which were the primary way physicists could study particle physics before particle accelerators. We know quarks have fractional charges (+ or - 1 or 2 thirds) so they don’t appear on their own but bound together, in trios in regular matter in neutrons & protons. 🧵
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#CMSPaper 1199: Many quark combinations make #mesons, particles composed of a quark+antiquark. This paper measures how B mesons form; these contain bottom (or: #beauty) quarks plus one other (lighter) quark.
Conclusion: the production is slightly different when a #bottom quark finds a relatively heavy strange quark during hadronization compared to lighter down & up quarks (and shows those are behaving similarly) http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/BPH-21-001/index.html #particlephysics #CERN @CMSexperiment #hadrons #physics