Does the Higgs boson have a cousin? Two teams of
physicists working independently at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN,
the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, reported on Tuesday that
they had seen traces of what could be a new fundamental particle of
nature.
One possibility, out of a gaggle(A cluster or group) of wild and
not-so-wild ideas springing to life as the day went on, is that the
particle — assuming it is real — is a heavier version of the Higgs
boson, a particle that explains why other particles have mass.
Another
is that it is a graviton, the supposed quantum carrier of gravity,
whose discovery could imply the existence of extra dimensions of
space-time.
At the end of a long chain of “ifs” could
be a revolution, the first clues to a theory of nature that goes beyond
the so-called Standard Model, which has ruled physics for the last
quarter-century.
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.
A
coincidence is the most probable explanation for the surprising bumps
in data from the collider, physicists from the experiments cautioned.
They added that a lot more data was needed and would in fact soon be
available.
— New York Times News Service
It could be a heavier version of the Higgs boson or quantum carrier called graviton
Data that may be helpful:
Important Points:-
Data that may be helpful:
Important Points:-
- The Higgs boson (or Higgs particle) is a particle that gives mass to other particles. Peter Higgs was the first person to think of it, and the particle was found in March 2013. It is part of the Standard Model in physics, which means it is found everywhere.
- The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and most powerful particle collider, the largest, most complex experimental facility ever built, and the largest single machine in the world.
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