Large Hadron Collider Discovers Beautiful New Particle

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider submitted a paper to Physical Review Letters claiming that they’d discovered a new Baryon particle. This is the Xi_b^*0  which is composed of three quarks: astrange quark, a beauty quark, and either an up or down quark.
What makes this finding unique is that this is the first ‘beauty’ baryon a baryon comprised with a beauty quark, that’s been discovered in its excited state. A baryon in its excited state has energy above the ground state, which is the minimum amount of energy the particle can have.
Researchers at the LHC looked for the Xi_b^*0 particle by looking for its decay products, because the standard model of particle physics predicts that the Xi_b^*0 will decay quickly into several different products of lesser mass. The researchers found the decay products, then worked backwards to reconstruct the Xi_b^*0 particle.
If confirmed by peer review, this will mark the second particle discovered at the Large Hadron Collider in the last few months. Last December, they’d discovered the Chi-b(3P), which had been predicted but not discovered.
Although this might seem a little esoteric, discovery of this baryon provides further proof of the validity of the Standard Model of Particle Physics, and helps contribute to our understanding of atomic interactions.