Last of the normal mesons.(discovery of new type of meson)(Brief Article)

Science News | April 25, 1998| | Copyright

Sifting through the debris of 100 million high-energy collisions between protons and their antimatter counterparts, researchers at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., found 19 events that pointed to a new particle. Measurements of the particle's mass, lifetime, and production rate confirmed it as a long-sought member of the meson family. Shin-Hong Kim of Tsukuba University in Japan, a member of the Collider Detector at Fermilab collaboration, announced the discovery last month at Fermilab.

A meson is a particle made up of a quark paired with ...

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