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Message 53183 - Posted: 18 Mar 2026, 9:02:34 UTC

New particle

The LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has discovered a new particle consisting of two charm quarks and one down quark, a similar structure to the familiar proton, but with two heavy charm quarks replacing the two up quarks of the proton, thus quadrupling its mass
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Message 53187 - Posted: 18 Mar 2026, 17:57:18 UTC - in response to Message 53183.  

In reply to [VENETO] boboviz's message of 18 Mar 2026:
New particle

The LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has discovered a new particle consisting of two charm quarks and one down quark, a similar structure to the familiar proton, but with two heavy charm quarks replacing the two up quarks of the proton, thus quadrupling its mass


Did any of our LHC@home applications contribute to this discovery? And if so I'm wondering the timeframe of the analysis? In short, I’d love to know if my PC played a really tiny part in discovering a new tiny particle.
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