The world’s biggest particle accelerator might have discovered a hint of a totally new fundamental particle or may be it has seen ghosts. However, if it turns out to be nothing at all even than particle physicists have come up with a spate of studies to match with the latest experimental findings, proposing various ideas regarding what could have been found.

The latest research papers’ theories range from positing new flavors of the Higgs boson to proposing candidates for dark matter. The studies have been uploaded on the ArXiv, a repository where anybody in the field can give feedback to scientists prior to submission or publication of a journal. So far, nine have been posted.

In case a latest particle or particles turn out to be real or if dark matter gets confirmation, than it would indicate that the reigning model of particle physics, the Standard Model, requires extension and perhaps replacement.

There have been many candidates, and since long physicists have hunted for Standard Model-breaking physics, as it is quite clear that the theory isn’t complete so far.

The Standard Model has been largely successful, simultaneously, as it predicted the Higgs boson and the thing is whether physicists have seen particles whose prediction was done by the model or something else completely. But many have doubts about whether this newbie is going to stand the tests of time or not.

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”.