{"id":130367,"date":"2021-11-10T20:23:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T04:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/a-triple-treat-from-large-hadron-collider-three-j-%cf%88-particles-emerging-from-a-single-collision-between-two-protons"},"modified":"2021-11-10T20:23:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T04:23:07","slug":"a-triple-treat-from-large-hadron-collider-three-j-%cf%88-particles-emerging-from-a-single-collision-between-two-protons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/a-triple-treat-from-large-hadron-collider-three-j-%cf%88-particles-emerging-from-a-single-collision-between-two-protons","title":{"rendered":"A Triple Treat From Large Hadron Collider: Three J\/\u03c8 Particles Emerging From a Single Collision Between Two Protons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-triple-treat-from-large-hadron-collider-three-j-cf88-particles-emerging-from-a-single-collision-between-two-protons2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> In a first for particle physics, the CMS collaboration has observed three J\/\u03c8 particles emerging from a single collision between two protons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a triple treat. By sifting through data from particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the CMS collaboration has seen not one, not two but three J\/\u03c8 particles emerging from a single collision between two protons. In addition to being a first for particle physics, the observation opens a new window into how quarks and gluons are distributed inside the proton.<\/p>\n<p>The J\/\u03c8 particle is a special particle. It was the first particle containing a charm quark to be discovered, winning Burton Richter and Samuel Ting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/physics\/1976\/summary\/\">Nobel prize in physics<\/a> and helping to establish the quark model of composite particles called hadrons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a first for particle physics, the CMS collaboration has observed three J\/\u03c8 particles emerging from a single collision between two protons. It\u2019s a triple treat. By sifting through data from particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the CMS collaboration has seen not one, not two but three J\/\u03c8 particles emerging from a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}