LHC Produces another Brand New Particle

The latest results come from the second run of the LHC, which began colliding particles at a record energy of 13 trillion electronvolts in June.

Nevertheless, the finding has already spawned at least 10 new papers in less than a day proposing a theoretical explanation for the particle, and has the halls and blackboards of physics departments around the world churning. “We will have to remain on the edges of our seats for a few more months to years.” particle physicist James Beacham, a post-doctoral research fellow with the Ohio State University, said in an interview with Discovery News.

Physicists from the University Of Bristol were analyzing data received from LHC’s Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment (after customization of the LHC) to find signs of Gluinos (supersymmetric partner of Gluons) which later decay into quarks and neutralinos (supersymmetric partners of Photons and Z Bosons).

If confirmed, the discovery of such a particle could have significant implications for the understanding of particle physics.

Observations by two different teams made by scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) suggest the possibility that the researchers could have discovered a new particle. The Higgs boson was discovered with data collected at 7 TeV and 8 TeV. “But for my generation, this is the first time there is a very large, quite reliable signal of physics beyond the Standard Model, so it’s definitely very exciting”.

Peter Woit, Columbia University mathematician, wrote on his blog, Not Even Wrong, “I do think the likelihood is now stronger that this will go away than that it will survive”.

“When we saw this tiny hill in the diphoton mass spectrum in ATLAS we’re like, “Hmmmmm…’ and then we instantly started poking it with our most ruthless experimental sticks, as usual, to see if it would withstand scrutiny”. A central part of our detector is a very large size magnet that produces a magnetic field near 4 Tesla that operates at very cold temperatures. It is, however, far too soon to shout “whale ahoy”, physicists both inside and outside CERN said, noting that the history of particle physics is rife with statistical flukes and anomalies that disappeared when more data was compiled.

Themost intriguing result so far, reported Tuesday, is an excess of pairs of gamma rays corresponding to an energy of about 750 billion electron volts.

The CMS team has prescribed the results a statistical significance of 2.6 sigma, while the ATLAS team’s has 3.6 sigma. “I certainly hope we’ll get something interesting in the future, but we don’t know”, Bloom says.

For now, Krieger said, “We have no idea what it is, if it’s real”.