Upsilon meson

The Upsilon meson (ϒ) is a quarkonium state (i.e. flavourless meson) formed from a bottom quark and its antiparticle. It was discovered by the E288 collaboration, headed by Leon Lederman, at Fermilab in 1977, and was the first particle containing a bottom quark to be discovered because it is the lightest that can be produced without additional massive particles. It has a lifetime of 6980120999999999999♠1.21×10⁻²⁰ s and a mass about 7000946000000000000♠9.46 GeV/c² in the ground state.

See also

• Oops-Leon, an erroneously-claimed discovery of a similar particle at a lower mass in 1976.
• The ϕ particle is the analogous state made from strange quarks.
• The J/ψ particle is the analogous state made from charm quarks.
• List of mesons

References

• D.C. Hom et al. (1977). "Observation of a Dimuon Resonance at 9.5 Gev in 400-GeV Proton-Nucleus Collisions" (PDF). Physical Review Letters 39: 252–255. Bibcode:1977PhRvL..39..252H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.39.252.  CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link)
• J. Yoh (1998). "The Discovery of the b Quark at Fermilab in 1977: The Experiment Coordinator's Story" (PDF). AIP Conference Proceedings 424: 29–42. 
• S. Eidelman et al. (Particle Data Group) (2004). "Review of Particle Physics – ϒ meson" (PDF). Physics Letters B 592: 1. arXiv:astro-ph/0406663. Bibcode:2004PhLB..592....1P. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2004.06.001. 

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