Scientists Discover New Subatomic TETRAQUARK Particle At Fermilabs
EDITOR’S NOTE: Another day, and yet another subatomic particle discovered! Scientists at Fermilabs, the mini cern, have announced the discovery of a Tetraquark during a run of the DZero experiments at the particle colliding facility.
Just what is it with the fascination about blasting the smallest of particles to smitherines just to see how it breaks down? Could it be that the real reason we are hell bent on colliding particles of just about anything is that they are looking to weaponise the actual building blocks of the universe?
The fact we are even learning about these particles suggests that the military already have their use for them and are now slowling releasing the science to the public in a controlleld release.
It could well be im a conspiracy theorist that is wrongly convinced that our leaders and their scientific magicians dont have our best interest at heart.
Either way, do we really know what the hell we are doing by conducting science like this?
Prof. Stephen Hawking is amonst those that are expressing concerns over just what the outcome of these collisions may be, and when you get people like that telling us there might be a problem, we really should be taking the time to listen!
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PHYS.ORGScientists discover new subatomic particle
February 26, 2016
Physicists have discovered a new elementary particle—the latest member to be added to the exotic species known as tetraquarks.
The discovery was made by scientists – including Lancaster’s Professor Iain Bertram – involved in the DZero international collaboration at Fermilab, the US Government’s laboratory specialising in high-energy particle physics.
Professor Bertram said: “It is exciting to discover a new and unusual particle that will help us understand the strong interaction- one of the four known fundamental interactions in physics.”
DZero is one of two experiments at Fermilab’s Tevatron collider. Although the Tevatron was retired in 2011, the experiments continue to analyse billions of previously recorded events from its collisions.
The tetraquark observation came as a surprise when DZero scientists first saw hints in July 2015 of the new particle, called X(5568), named for its mass—5568 megaelectronvolts.
Professor Bertram worked on the analysis, developing the model used to simulate the X(5568).
Quarks are point-like elementary particles that typically come in packages of two or three, the most familiar of which are the proton and neutron (each is made of three quarks).
There are six types, or “flavours,” of quark to choose from: up, down, strange, charm, bottom and top. Each of these also has an antimatter counterpart.
While all other observed tetraquarks contain at least two of the same flavor, X(5568) has four different flavors – up, down, strange and bottom.
