European Organization for Nuclear Research. In short, this organization is called CERN. Scientists have managed to detect a strange new particle at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland. According to them, it could be a ghost particle.
Using the Compact Moon Solenoid (CMS) instrument, the researchers found that the mass of this particle is very high. The mass of the carbon atom will be doubled. This is perhaps the most surprising fact.
However, it is not possible to explain the properties of these particles with the theories of physics that scientists have. If this situation continues for some time, there will be an event that will create a stir in science.
Alexander Nikitenko. He was a theorist on the CMS team who worked with data. “All scientists are very interested in the subject. But as this analyst I have to have some optimism,” he told The Guardian.
The team discussed their findings at a meeting today at CERN. These probes represent the particle in the CMS detector as a muon, a heavy electron. It is behaving like a particle with a mass of 28GeV, which is about a quarter of the Higgs boson’s mass of 125 GeV.
It may take another year to find out if the particle is real, but researchers don’t think it will disprove an important theory in physics. “But it is strange – finding a particle of such mass was not expected,” they said.
In July this year, astronomers were able to detect neutrinos from a powerful galaxy 4 billion light-years away. A somewhat different discovery though, there was the subject of ghost particles.
In March, a strangely named “skyrimon” particle was reported, a particle with lightning-like properties. And in September, results from CERN pointed to a particle that appears to defy the Standard Model of physics.