3 ms·
No, it's not surprising theoretically, but experimentally it's still quite an achievement to be able to spot even these rare events.
by pdonis 3y ago
No, it's not surprising theoretically, but experimentally it's still quite an achievement to be able to spot even these rare events.
- exmadscientist 3y agoIt was a bit of an open question what would happen with the heavy charm quarks, given that they each mass more than the entire proton, but yeah... anything else would have been a major surprise.
- OldGuyInTheClub 3y agoFrom the article's description it sounds like they tortured the data until it told them what they wanted. If the charm did show up, how long did it exist? In conventional spectroscopy, the broader the line, the shorter the lifetime (and v.v.) It smells like a sub-attosecond lifetime, if that.