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  1. mazzoo @[email protected] ·

    Ξcc+ be your name.

    protons are composed of three quarks. there are six flavors of quarks:
    - up
    - down
    - charm
    - strange
    - bottom
    - top

    "normal" protons are made of two up quarks and one down quark. now researchers at CERN have found a rare proton consisting of two charm quarks and one down quark.

    the newly found particle is about four times as heavy as the ordinary proton.

    someone explain how this makes sense given that the charm quark is more than 555 times heavier than the up quark. otherwise my brain settles on being in Heisenberg-land where particles live too short to fully press down the scale.

    home.cern/news/news/physics/lh

    #CERN #Ξcc+ #proton #quark

    #cern #ξcc #proton #quark