Recent Discoveries
The Ω−
b particle is a "doubly strange" baryon containing two strange quarks and a bottom quark. A discovery of this particle was first claimed in September 2008 by physicists working on the DZero experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. However, the reported mass, 6,165±16 MeV/c2, was significantly higher than expected in quark model. The apparent discrepancy from Standard Model has since been dubbed "Ω
b puzzle". In May 2009 the CDF collaboration made public their results on search for Ω−
b based on analysis of data sample roughly four times larger than the one used by DØ experiment. CDF measured mass to be 6,054.4±6.8 MeV/c2 in excellent agreement with Standard Model prediction. No signal has been observed at DZero reported value. The two results differ by 111±18 MeV/c2 or by 6.2 standard deviations and therefore are inconsistent. Excellent agreement between CDF measured mass and theoretical expectations is a strong indication that the particle discovered by CDF is indeed the Ω−
b.
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