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From what I can gather "Beauty Particle" is the newer name for popular culture's "God Particle"?
by hendler 17y ago
From what I can gather "Beauty Particle" is the newer name for popular culture's "God Particle"?
- Robin_Message 17y agoMy physics is rusty, but I think not. A Beauty particle is a bottom anti-quark paired with a up quark. The bottom quark was called beauty for a while, so that's probably why this particular combination is called a beauty particle. The God particle is the Higgs boson. Note a boson is quite different to a lepton (e.g. electron or neutrino) or a fermion (e.g. quark or proton).
- sp332 17y agoNo. Did you read the description on the page? The Beauty Particle (called B+) is composed of an anti-quark b (that has a very short lifetime of 1.5 thousandth of a nanosecond!) and a quark u." The God Particle (the Higgs Boson) is a fundamental particle, it is not composed of smaller particles.