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Hadron Collider hints at another new particle

By T.K. Randall
July 7, 2016 · Comment icon 12 comments

Has the team at CERN struck gold yet again ? Image Credit: CC BY-SA 3.0 Maximilien Brice
The team behind the world's largest atom smasher may be on the verge of making another major discovery.
Not content with finding the long-sought Higgs-Boson, the scientists behind the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva have been continuing their efforts to unravel the secrets of the universe by pushing the world-famous particle accelerator to increasingly high levels of energy and intensity.

Recent results from their experiments have revealed what has been referred to as a "bump" in their data indicating that more photons had been picked up than expected during the trillions of particle collisions carried out over the last twelve months.
While it's still early days yet, there is a chance that this anomalous reading may point to the presence of a previously unknown particle that is six times more massive than the Higgs Boson.

"More data is needed to be sure the signal doesn't go away - until then we have to be cautious," said Prof Stefan Söldner-Rembold. "The big reason that people are excited about this bump is that both experiments (Atlas and CMS) saw a hint in roughly the same place."

Additional details about the potential new find are likely to surface over the coming weeks.

Source: BBC News | Comments (12)




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Comment icon #3 Posted by highdesert50 8 years ago
There is a concise article in sci-news.com (CERN physicists observe three new tetraquark particles) describing these particles as helping to substantiate the quark model proposed back in 1964.
Comment icon #4 Posted by and then 8 years ago
And on the weird and unexplained side of things: http://www.rightsidenews.com/life-and-science/energy-and-environment/bizarre-portal-shaped-clouds-form-over-cern-during-the-awake-experiment/ What?  It could happen ...  
Comment icon #5 Posted by Why not 8 years ago
That's a very interesting link. The thing I can't get out of my head is the quote from physicist Sergio Bertolucci who works at CERN about (exta dimensions) and (out of this door might come something, or we might send something).  That's pretty damn spooky to hear that coming from a physicist that works there.
Comment icon #6 Posted by universal skeptic 8 years ago
Curiosity killed the cat.
Comment icon #7 Posted by aquatus1 8 years ago
But satisfaction brought it back.
Comment icon #8 Posted by Derek Willis 8 years ago
If people like Faraday, Maxwell, Thompson and Marconi hadn't been curious, Universal Skeptic would not have been able to use the wonders of the internet to tell us that curiosity killed the cat.
Comment icon #9 Posted by Emma_Acid 8 years ago
Meaning?
Comment icon #10 Posted by and then 8 years ago
True enough but when a mind on par with Einstein expresses caution about our approach to discovery I'd say it's worth a pause to re-evaluate.  The issue seems to be the total arrogance of humanity - scientists especially - that we are somehow in control of everything.  You'd think weather would have been enough of a clue before now that such thinking is in error.
Comment icon #11 Posted by Emma_Acid 8 years ago
Except no scientist has ever said this, and this isn't how science works, rather a weird, strawman version of science feverishly imagined by the anti-science brigade. It simply isn't reality.
Comment icon #12 Posted by Derek Willis 8 years ago
You've lost me there. Which mind "on par with Einstein" are you referring to?


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