An engineer attaches photomultiplier tubes to the electromagnetic calorimeter on the Large Hadron Collider beauty or LHCb experiment . LHCb investigates the slight differences between matter and antimatter by studying a type of particle called the "beauty quark" or "b quark," according to CERN.
These large wall detectors will be used to study the bottom quark, a heavy, short-lived version of quarks found in protons and neutrons. The electromagnetic calorimeter will be used to detect photons, electrons, and positrons produced by the decay of these short-lived quarks, according to CERN.
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