A Charming New Particle

CERN discovery was more than 30 years in the making.

By Sylvia Morrow
Jan 24, 2018 6:00 AMNov 12, 2019 5:13 AM
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Meet the new particle, Ξc+c+, which includes one "up" quark (on the left) and two "charm" quarks (two to the right). | Daniel Dominguez/CERN

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