A team of physicists from the University of Zurich’s Physics Institute working with the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at CERN has observed for the first time a new, excited beauty baryon known as the Ξ*b0 (or Xi_b^*0), a baryon with one light and two heavy quarks. View of the Compact Muon Solenoid endcap through the barrel sections (Julian Williams / CERN) In particle physics, the baryon family refers to particles that are made up of...
