Two new excited states of the Lambda-b beauty particle observed by LHCb
Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 06:00
in Physics & Chemistry
In beautiful agreement with the Standard Model, two new excited states of the Λb beauty particle have just been observed by the LHCb Collaboration. Similarly to protons and neutrons, Λb is composed of three quarks. In the Λb’s case, these are up, down and… beauty.