00:00The team at CERN has discovered a brand new particle.
00:03They're calling it Chi-CC+, which does not look when it's written down at all like that,
00:09but bear with me, it's Greek letters.
00:10And it is four times heavier than a proton.
00:13It's a chonky boy.
00:14It is made up of three quarks, one down and two charm,
00:19which, if that sounds like word salad,
00:22can be attributed to the fact that quarks have kind of funny names.
00:25You have up and down, which are pretty normal,
00:27but then you have strange and charm,
00:30and then you round out the set of six with top and bottom,
00:33which are sometimes in older scientific literature called truth and beauty.
00:38You don't see that so much anymore, but I find it very charming.
00:42But back to Chi-CC+, it's only visible in these colliders
00:46for like a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a second.
00:50It's this teeny little moment,
00:51but the team at CERN still managed to catch it,
00:54and now they can do some analysis.
00:55The discovery is not as big as like the Higgs boson
00:59or something like that,
01:00but it is an important piece of the subatomic puzzle
01:03that scientists now can check off the board.
01:06Pretty cool.
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