CERN: physicists report the discovery of unique new particle
Thursday, July 9, 2020 - 09:50
in Physics & Chemistry
The LHCb collaboration at CERN has announced the discovery of a new exotic particle: a so-called "tetraquark". The paper by more than 800 authors is yet to be evaluated by other scientists in a process called "peer review", but has been presented at a seminar. It also meets the usual statistical threshold for claiming the discovery of a new particle.