CERN Scientists Claim Discovery of New Particles

A new kind of subatomic particle called the pentaquark has been detected for the first time, the European Organization for Nuclear Research said Tuesday. The lab, known by its French acronym CERN, said the findings were made by a team of scientists working on one of the four experiments at its Large Hadron Collider. Their results have been submitted to the journal Physical Review Letters. The existence of pentaquarks was first proposed in the 1960s by American physicists Murray...

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