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Bottoms down for quarks The Belle collaboration at the KEK laboratory in Japan has observed a rare process whereby a bottom quark decays into a down quark, researchers announced at the Lepton-Photon symposium in Uppsala in Sweden this week. Although the decay is predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics, it could open a new window on the subatomic world because theories such as supersymmetry can also account for the process.
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