Unexpected observations at a Japanese particle accelerator may signal the presence of previously unknown subatomic matter.
The conjecture, from the so-called Belle team at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Tsukuba, was inspired by the team’s measurements of a specific type of decay of fundamental particles called bottom, or b, quarks and their antimatter counterparts, anti-b quarks.
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