New particle observed by CMS at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

New particle observed by CMS at CERN‘s Large Hadron Collider

The CMS experiment has submitted a paper for publication describing the first observation of a new, excited beauty baryon known as the Ξ*_b, with a statistical significance of more than 5 standard deviations (5σ) above the expected background. The mass is measured to be 5945.0 ± 2.8 MeV…

Read more at: http://cern.ch/go/kJ8q
Full paper at: http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.5955

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