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New Particle Discovered at CERN

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Re: New Particle Discovered at CERN

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>The baryon known as Xi_b^* A word on your PR, physics.

Except that that isn't what it's called. That's the TeX way of describing it. Funny that their entire press release assumes you are looking through a TeX or LaTeX lens :-)

It should actually look like this:

http://equationater.com/84e00ccd9705dca5bc0917a33e162502.png

If you look at the full list of baryons on Wikipedia you'll see that it's one of many in this format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_baryons This is a Xi.

The particle Xi_b^ comprises one “up”, one “strange” and one “bottom” quark (usb)*

So, it's an up strange bottom (usb) baryon.

Re: New Particle Discovered at CERN

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post #3

>The baryon known as Xi_b^* A word on your PR, physics.

Except that that isn't what it's called. That's the TeX way of describing it. Funny that their entire press release assumes you are looking through a TeX or LaTeX lens :-) It should actually look like this: http://equationater.com/84e00ccd9705dca5bc0917a33e162502.png If you look at the full list of baryons on Wikipedia you'll see that it's one of many in this format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_baryons This…

Interesting. Thank you for clarifying that.

Re: New Particle Discovered at CERN

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post #3

>The baryon known as Xi_b^* A word on your PR, physics.

Except that that isn't what it's called. That's the TeX way of describing it. Funny that their entire press release assumes you are looking through a TeX or LaTeX lens :-) It should actually look like this: http://equationater.com/84e00ccd9705dca5bc0917a33e162502.png If you look at the full list of baryons on Wikipedia you'll see that it's one of many in this format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_baryons This…

two questions--

how does that differ from \Xi_b^0, which also seems to be a usb baryon?

is there a standard way to pronounce those symbols (e.g. "xi star sub-b")?

Re: New Particle Discovered at CERN

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except that that isn't what it's called. That's the TeX way of describing it. Funny that their entire press release assumes you are looking through a TeX or LaTeX lens :-) It should actually look like this: http://equationater.com/84e00ccd9705dca5bc0917a33e162502.png If you look at the full list of baryons on Wikipedia you'll see that it's one of many in this format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_baryons This…

two questions-- how does that differ from \Xi_b^0, which also seems to be a usb baryon? is there a standard way to pronounce those symbols (e.g. "xi star sub-b")?

Close, it's just like "zeye star bee". (edited)
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