The LHCb magnet, shown under construction in 2008, studies bottom quarks and was responsible for revealing the pentaquark. | Peter Ginter/CERN
Physicists Discover a ‘Quarky’ Quintet
LHC experiment reveals exotic, short-lived particles with five quarks.
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