[general_re]

New particle turns up in Japan

Ah, well - that's my fault. I must have left it in my hotel room the last time I went to Japan on business. Sorry about that.

[BostonianRightist]

I think I understood 4 of those sentences!

[Virginia-American]

Diddley: Thanks.

PH: Ping the science crew.

[demkicker]

Bump to the Mensa crowd....

[jwalburg]

Eating subatomic particles in sushi may be harmful to your health says CDC.

[WackyKat]

They should name it the "Fugu"

[P.O.E.]

Yatta?

[AmericanVictory]

In the hunting of this quark, did they hunt it with railway shares and hot buttered toast?

[GeronL]

LOST: Particle from Ennis Texas. May wander long distances. Has protons and neutrons. Reward if found and returned safely

[Skibane]

Mesons are particles that contain a quark and an antiquark that are held together by the strong nuclear force. Since there are six different "flavours" of quark - up, down, strange, charm, bottom and top - it is possible to form a large number of different mesons.

Ever get the feeling that we are inventing needlessly complex explanations for some (as yet unseen) simple phenomenon?

[Old Professer]

It's hard enough to walk around the house in the dark with three dogs, now I have to worry about sh*t like this?

[RightWingAtheist]

Ironicaly, this is occurring just as Japan is following America's lead in, er, relinquishing its leading role in particle physics: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1005624/posts

[RightWingAtheist]

Say hello to the new family member.

[Pharmboy]

[Singing]:
Ah! sweet mystery of life, at last I've found thee;
Ah! I know at last the secret of it all;
All the longing, striving, seeking, waiting, yearning,
The burning hopes, the joys and idle tears that fall!
Click here for music

[AdmSmith]

Thanks, here are some links:

http://www.kek.jp/press/2003/belle4e.html

a press release with some nice figures.

and here is the article on the particle: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0309032 (10 pages with 2 pages of researches, science is not as it was for Rutherford)

We report the observation of a narrow charmonium-like state produced in the exclusive decay process B+ -> K+ pi+pi- J/psi. This state, which decays into pi+pi- J/psi, has a mass of 3872.0+-0.6(stat)+-0.5(syst) MeV, a value that is very near the M_D + M_D* mass threshold. The results are based on an analysis of 152M B-Bbar events collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance in the Belle detector at the KEKB collider. The statistical significance of the signal is in excess of 10 sigma.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

And You-Know-Who shows up shortly after:

[Consort]

Didn't the Japanese also invent the futon?

[Consort]

Is it the Copenhagen Theory of quantum physics that says if someone expects to find a certain type of subatomic particle, they will create it in the process even if it never existed?.

[R. Scott]

When I studied physics in high school there were only three elementary particles – the electron, proton and neutron. There was wild speculation that these might be made of other simpler particles, but many doubted it.
Was it really that long ago?

[aruanan]

With gluon, muon, lepton, is it going to be called the nip-on?