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- The discovery of the ?_cc^+ particle, composed of two charm quarks and one down quark, was announced as the first result from the upgraded Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) detector at CERN.
- The Moriond conference notes that the ?_cc^+ is four times heavier than a proton.
- Researchers observed decay events in proton-proton collisions and measured a 7-sigma significance.
- The University of Manchester contributed to the detector upgrade and CERN research.
