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To: RadioAstronomer; PatrickHenry; longshadow; VadeRetro; jennyp; Piltdown_Woman; Gumlegs
Penn High Energy Physics bump. (Penn has a BABAR group, led by Prof. Larry Gladney.)

Slac fires particles along a track

They do, but this research was done with a storage ring, PEP-II. The SLC is used as an injector for it, however.

9 posted on 04/30/2003 1:51:00 PM PDT by Physicist
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To: Physicist
The article says this:
This force [that binds the quarks together], unlike most others in nature, becomes stronger as the distance between the two quarks increases.

It's not surprising that I'm not up to date in this exotic field, but I didn't expect to be totally blindsided by something. How long has this been going on? I assume this is the reason that no free quarks exist in nature. Still, it's a darn curious thing.

25 posted on 04/30/2003 4:00:04 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
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