"The heaviest fermion is the top quark, but it is too heavy itself for the Higgs to decay into. The next is the bottom quark – and theoretical calculations suggest the Higgs should decay into a bottom quark and anti-quark 60% of the time. The third is the tau particle, which weighs almost half as much as the bottom quark and to which the boson decays only 6% of the time. But the problem is that hadron colliders – Large or not – also produce an abundance of bottom quarks through other mechanisms. The rules of quantum chromodynamics (QCD: the study of quarks and gluons) enable some in particular that produce lots of bottom quarks." (From here). I also have been known to produce occasional bottom quarks; I usually just make excuses and leave the room for a while. But no-one ever celebrates it in scientific circles as far as I have been told.
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