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SELEX spokesperson Jim Russ of Carnegie Mellon University holds a metaphoric bucket for decays of the newly observed meson and its unexpected decay pattern. Says Russ: “It’s like watching a water bucket with a large hole and small hole in the bottom. For some reason, the water is pouring out the small hole six times faster than it’s coming out of the large one. Something unusual must be going on inside the bucket.”