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BaBar detects new particle

30 Apr 2003 Isabelle Dumé

The BaBar experiment at Stanford in the US has identified a new sub-atomic particle called the Ds(2317). The particle consists of a charm quark and a strange antiquark. Antimo Palano of the BaBar collaboration presented the result at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) earlier this week.

Ds(2317).
Quarks and antiquarks come in six different ‘flavours’ and are held together in two and

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