Physicists Just Measured The Heaviest Known Particle With Record-Breaking Precision

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Physicists Just Measured The Heaviest Known Particle With Record-Breaking Precision

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Physicists Just Measured The Heaviest Known Particle With Record-Breaking Precision
FIONA MACDONALD, 29 APRIL 2022
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" . . ,physicists using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have now measured the heaviest
known elementary particle with an unprecedented amount of precision."

"But that doesn't mean the case is closed – this measurement could be just the start
of a deeper understanding of how our Universe works.
The elementary particle in question is called the top quark, and it's the most massive of all known
elementary particles, contributing to a fundamental part of our understanding of the Universe.

Importantly, it gets its mass from coupling with the elusive Higgs boson."
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https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists ... g-accuracy
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does the heaviest known particle actually weigh anything in zero gravity?

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Impenitent wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 1:15 am does the heaviest known particle actually weigh anything in zero gravity?

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"Quarks" were invented to explain the structure of the "proton".
How many "quarks" do we know?
Quarks: up, down, charm, strange, top, bottom + antiquarks + tetraquark +
pentaquark + leptoquark + top quark.
And a more powerful LHC will give new chances to find the missing
particles for the Standard Model
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