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Not everyone is fully on board. Some theorists worry that the approach will only yield more false alarms from the collider—more tentative blips in the data like “two-sigma bumps,” so named for their low level of statistical certainty. These are generally flukes that eventually disappear with more data and analysis. Koren is concerned that this will be even more the case with such an open-ended technique: “It seems they want to have a machine that finds more two-sigma bumps at the LHC.”  Nachman told me that he received a…

Illustration of two types of long-lived particles decaying into a pair of muons, showing how the signals of the muons can be traced back to the long-lived particle decay point using data from the tracker and muon detectors. Credit: CMS/CERN This search for exotic long-lived particles looks at the possibility of “dark photon” production, which would occur when a Higgs boson decays into muons displaced in the detector.The CMS experiment has presented its first search for new physics using data from Run 3 of the Large Hadron…

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Scientists working on CERN’s Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment have published the latest data in their search for a long-lived exotic particle known as the dark photon.Let’s Eat a Chocolate Xbox ControllerDark photons (also called hidden photons) differ from regular photons—particles of light—in that they are thought to have mass, making them a prime candidate to explain dark matter. Dark matter is the catchall term to describe seemingly invisible stuff in space that has only been observed via its gravitational…

Researchers at CERN’s ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider have introduced a novel approach to search for Dark Matter through semi-visible jets, marking a significant paradigm shift in the field. Their work provides new directions and stringent upper bounds in the ongoing quest to understand dark matter.Researchers investigate whether dark matter particles actually are produced inside a jet of standard model particles.The existence of dark matter is a long-standing puzzle in our universe. Dark matter makes up…

Candidate Higgs boson decays into two photons in the ATLAS experiment. Credit: CERNNew result from the ATLAS experiment at <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>CERN</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Established in 1954 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, CERN is a European research organization that operates the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Its full name is the…

Protons accelerated almost to the speed of light can collide similarly to billiard balls. However, since protons are quantum particles, from measuring such collisions we can learn unobvious things about the strong interaction. Credit: IFJ PANA study conducted by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Accelerator has gained insights into the properties of strong interactions between protons at ultra-high energies by exploring elastic scattering in proton-proton collisions. The research found discrepancies with…

Physicists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have made the first observation of the directed flow of hypernuclei, rare nuclei containing at least one hyperon, in particle collisions. Hyperons, which contain a “strange” quark, are believed to be abundant in neutron stars, one of the universe’s densest objects. By simulating these conditions in the laboratory, researchers aim to understand the interactions between hyperons and nucleons.Particle collisions offer a new way to study interactions of hyperon…

CERN’s ATLAS and CMS teams have found initial evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay into a Z boson and photon. The discovery, while not meeting conventional statistical significance, provides valuable insights and potential indirect evidence of undiscovered particles and physics beyond the Standard Model. Credit: CERNThe ATLAS and CMS collaborations have joined forces to establish the first evidence of the rare decay of the Higgs boson into a Z boson and a <span class="glossaryLink"…