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Article: Strange case of the unbreakable proton
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 23, 1995
- Author:
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The leafy outer suburbs of Hamburg, Germany, are home to one of
the world's largest electron "microscopes". The device, known as
Hera, is actually a large subatomic racetrack around which
researchers fire elementary particles in order to probe the
fundamental constituents of the material universe.
Over the past 50 years, researchers have collected an
increasingly exotic menagerie of subnuclear particles, whose
sometimes whimsical names reflect their esoteric nature: pions,
muons, quarks, and the gluons that bind (or "glue") the quarks
together. But there is now a lot of excitement at Hera, where they
believe they have detected a particle so exotic that even the
physicists d not think it can ...
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