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Jun. 21, 2013
Physicists Find New Particle, Look for Answers
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Researchers say that they’ve discovered a new subatomic particle—one that appears to contain four quarks bound together. Physicist Sean M. Carroll describes the significance of the find, and talks about the ongoing effort in physics to explain why the universe is the way it is.
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Sean Carroll
Author, "The Particle at the End of the Universe" (Dutton, Nov 2012)
Senior Research Associate in Physics
Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
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The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
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