{"id":140280,"date":"2022-06-08T11:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T16:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/elusive-particle-discovered-in-a-material-through-tabletop-experiment"},"modified":"2022-06-08T11:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T16:22:18","slug":"elusive-particle-discovered-in-a-material-through-tabletop-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/elusive-particle-discovered-in-a-material-through-tabletop-experiment","title":{"rendered":"Elusive particle discovered in a material through tabletop experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elusive-particle-discovered-in-a-material-through-tabletop-experiment2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interdisciplinary team led by Boston College physicists has discovered a new particle\u2014or previously undetectable quantum excitation\u2014known as the axial Higgs mode, a magnetic relative of the mass-defining Higgs Boson particle, the team reports in the online edition of the journal Nature.<\/p>\n<p>The detection a decade ago of the long-sought Higgs Boson became central to the understanding of mass. Unlike its parent, axial Higgs mode has a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+moment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic moment<\/a>, and that requires a more complex form of the theory to explain its properties, said Boston College Professor of Physics Kenneth Burch, a lead co-author of the report \u201cAxial Higgs Mode Detected by Quantum Pathway Interference in RTe3.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Theories that predicted the existence of such a mode have been invoked to explain \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/dark+matter\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dark matter<\/a>,\u201d the nearly invisible material that makes up much of the universe, but only reveals itself via gravity, Burch said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interdisciplinary team led by Boston College physicists has discovered a new particle\u2014or previously undetectable quantum excitation\u2014known as the axial Higgs mode, a magnetic relative of the mass-defining Higgs Boson particle, the team reports in the online edition of the journal Nature. The detection a decade ago of the long-sought Higgs Boson became central to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140280","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}