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Thread #59418   Message #3937194
Posted By: Amos
13-Jul-18 - 01:57 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
"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.