Possibility of new particle discovery at LHC fading

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  1. paddoboy Valued Senior Member

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    The physics community is apparently starting to lose its buzz over the possibility of the discovery of a new particle by researchers working at the CERN LHC facility near Geneva. As more data is studied, it appears more and more likely that the blip that was seen last December was simply an anomaly in the data.

    The discovery of a new particle, one that has not been predicted by the Standard Model, would cause more than a stir in the high energy physics world—it would actually be a revolutionary event, setting physicists off on new paths of discovery for years to come. That is why news that a team working on the ATLAS and CMS projects at the LHC caused a stir late last year when they reported a 750 GeV diphoton "bump" in the data, one that was reported in two separate experiments.

    Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-06-possibility-particle-discovery-lhc.html#jCp
     

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