An energy release so powerful physicists considered keeping it a secrete. Fusing two bottom quarks release 8 times as much energy as hydrogen fusion! 

https://www.livescience.com/60847-charm-quark-fusion-subatomic-hydrogen-bomb.html?

 

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Energetic events at the subatomic level are measured in megaelectronvolts (MeV), and when two bottom quarks fuse, the physicists found, they produce a whopping 138 MeV. That's about eight times more powerful than one of the individual nuclear fusion events that takes place in hydrogen bombs

 

Aren't bottom quarks a decay product of the Higgs boson?

Seems like a lot of trouble to go to...
Build an LHC.
Search for a few Higgs particles.
Collect their decay products.
Build a bomb with a couple GeV yield.

There was a quark bomb years ago in a TV serial called "Whoops, Apocalypse." I don't think it had a happy ending.

You can't have quarks on their own, and bottom quarks decay quickly anyway, so you can't have a collection of these in order to make a bomb. They don't describe the conditions of the reaction, other than to say it's a "one-trick pony". It has to be an offshoot of some other interaction taking place in the collider.

12 hours ago, Moontanman said:

An energy release so powerful physicists considered keeping it a secrete. Fusing two bottom quarks release 8 times as much energy as hydrogen fusion!

Ehem.. Decay of neutral pion [math]\pi^0[/math] releases ~ 135 MeV, two gamma photons..