Production of the Y Particle (IMAGE)

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Production of the Y Particle

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The Tevatron typically produces about 10 million proton-antiproton collisions per second, sometimes creating particles known as B mesons. The CDF scientists found evidence that some B mesons unexpectedly decay into an intermediate quark structure identified as a Y particle.

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