Physicists discover a heavy cousin of the proton at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

Scientists from The University of Manchester have played a key role in identifying a previously unknown subatomic particle at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The particle, called the Ξ_cc⁺ (Xi-cc-plus), is a heavy proton-like particle made up of two charm quarks and one down quark.

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