Scientists at LHC Find Hints of New Particle with Extremely High Energy
The observations of the first results after the major upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) outside Geneva, Switzerland, were revealed on December 15, and scientists said they noted the Higgs boson in 2012 sensed an intriguing, hinting discovery of a new elementary particle.
Scientists at the LHC recreated conductions of Big Bang, and physicists were able to go back in time and see for a very brief moment what primordial particles can be created by Nature.
In the case of the Higgs boson, the physicists required huge energies to produce the massive particle weighing in at a mass of 125 gigaelectronvolts (GeV). The discovery of Higgs boson confirmed that the Standard Model of physics correctly described all known particles and forces in the cosmos.
Now, the physicists detected a signal inside the same two LHC experiments that made the Higgs boson discovery in 2012.
ATLAS experiment recorded a computer rendering of a 13 TeV collision. The yellow and green bars indicated the presence of particle jets, said the researchers.
Particle physicist James Beacham, a post-doctoral research fellow with the Ohio State University, said, “We’ve been working round-the-clock to understand and triple-check our numbers, and (Dec. 15) was the culmination of the year’s worth of work by thousands of people”.
The signature of this signal can reveal a fingerprint of the particle that decayed. In this case, the excess could be caused by pairs of photons (diphotons) with energy of 750 GeV, said the researchers.