The Quirks of Quarks
If we know one thing about innovation, it’s that widened perspectives lead to new ideas. Understanding how other forces work can widen your perspective on electromagnetism and maybe help you think of something new.
The LHCb experiment at CERN recently confirmed the existence of a particle that violates the quark model, so it’s a good time to fill you in on just how weird quarks are. LHCb is the name of the Large Hadron Collider beauty collaboration, where “b” refers to the bottom quark, which is sometimes called the beauty quark, as opposed to the top quark, which is sometimes called the truth quark. But forget the sensationalism, that’s for the politicians who write up energy budgets. LHCb
announced confirmation of the Z(4430) experiment at the KEK collider in Tsukuba Japan.
Quarks interact primarily through the strong nuclear force. Violating the quark model isn’t a big deal. Violating the quantum theory of the strong force would be a giant, Nobel-quality announcement, but that hasn’t happened.
Full article by Ransom Stephens, EDN Network
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