If im correct the first quark they put on the table is a top quark, just the regular quark, not decaying. Then the "single decaying top quark" they pull out is actualy a bottom quark not a top quark. When they unzipped it it turned into a top quark not a b meson. The two things they got right were the anti- muon and the muon nutrino.
Uh, instead of showing an actual top quark decay, you shown a bottom quark decay into a top quark (physically impossible), releasing an antimuon and an electron-neutrino. You label the bottom quark a top quark, the top quark a B meson, and the electron-neutrino a muon-neutrino. You made a few mistakes there. Heh heh...
Uh, you were showing us a bottom quark decaying into a top quark, which isn't physically possible. You didn't show us any B mesons at all. Sorry, but you totally messed up a slow-mo top quark decay.
Physics never looked so cuddly :) Only a few more days left for them to find that Higgs particle before the LHC begins it's race towards finding it, I wish them both luck and am sure both projects will come up with separate great discoveries of their own. Hopefully these cuddly things will available to the public so everyone will have a chance to separate particles and put them back together. :D
That was a cute way to demonstrate it! Now, if the single top quark is indeed single, let's find it a date... (seriously, I am going back to school to learn this stuff, and like to make jokes about it when I can. Learning tool!)
well... i may be stupid... but i'm glad they discovered a quark. the last time i read about quarks the author said gluons would keep quarks so tightly that nobody will ever see a quark alone.
Well, from what I understand, it wasn't just one top quark sitting there that they could look at- the gluons would keep it bound. But I guess they found the decay products which would indicate a single decaying Top quark.
I didn't follow exactly what they said but that's what I understand.
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MR1QUEST 2 months ago
If im correct the first quark they put on the table is a top quark, just the regular quark, not decaying. Then the "single decaying top quark" they pull out is actualy a bottom quark not a top quark. When they unzipped it it turned into a top quark not a b meson. The two things they got right were the anti- muon and the muon nutrino.
quicknuclearscience 9 months ago
Forgive me as I know nothing of particle physics, is there a difference between a top quark, and a single top quark?
lessermystery 11 months ago
Uh, instead of showing an actual top quark decay, you shown a bottom quark decay into a top quark (physically impossible), releasing an antimuon and an electron-neutrino. You label the bottom quark a top quark, the top quark a B meson, and the electron-neutrino a muon-neutrino. You made a few mistakes there. Heh heh...
SpaceTime4D 1 year ago
Uh, you were showing us a bottom quark decaying into a top quark, which isn't physically possible. You didn't show us any B mesons at all. Sorry, but you totally messed up a slow-mo top quark decay.
SpaceTime4D 1 year ago
wonder if people contain higgs bosons?> :)
love heidi! great viid!
MaryStewart 1 year ago
i love these guys i have the universe and higgs bobson :D
TheTouchedIpod 1 year ago
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nonxcarbonx 2 years ago
Win. Love this
fairtony 2 years ago
Physics never looked so cuddly :) Only a few more days left for them to find that Higgs particle before the LHC begins it's race towards finding it, I wish them both luck and am sure both projects will come up with separate great discoveries of their own. Hopefully these cuddly things will available to the public so everyone will have a chance to separate particles and put them back together. :D
TearyEyesAnderson 2 years ago
That was a cute way to demonstrate it! Now, if the single top quark is indeed single, let's find it a date... (seriously, I am going back to school to learn this stuff, and like to make jokes about it when I can. Learning tool!)
chaosopher23 2 years ago
WOW! Beautiful work Fermilab! :D
I liked the puppet illustration... I want one! XD
Thymonico 2 years ago
well... i may be stupid... but i'm glad they discovered a quark. the last time i read about quarks the author said gluons would keep quarks so tightly that nobody will ever see a quark alone.
raffofiction 2 years ago
Well, from what I understand, it wasn't just one top quark sitting there that they could look at- the gluons would keep it bound. But I guess they found the decay products which would indicate a single decaying Top quark.
I didn't follow exactly what they said but that's what I understand.
sonickid001 2 years ago
Yes indeed, they didn't actrually see the quark, they saw the decay products that could only have been emitted from a single top quark. ;)
Thymonico 2 years ago