{"id":141727,"date":"2022-07-06T03:22:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T08:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/cern-scientists-discover-three-new-composite-particles-as-lhc-resumes-operation"},"modified":"2022-07-06T03:22:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T08:22:36","slug":"cern-scientists-discover-three-new-composite-particles-as-lhc-resumes-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/cern-scientists-discover-three-new-composite-particles-as-lhc-resumes-operation","title":{"rendered":"CERN scientists discover three new composite particles as LHC resumes operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cern-scientists-discover-three-new-composite-particles-as-lhc-resumes-operation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at the European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN) has discovered three new composite particles from observations made through the Large Hadron Collider \u2013 the world\u2019s most powerful particle accelerator located in Switzerland and France. The discovery included a pair of tetraquarks and a pentaquark \u2013 thereby showcasing an even wider range of ways in which fundamental particles of the universe can interact with each other.<\/p>\n<p>A quark is a fundamental particle, which means that it has no further known subdivisions in particle physics, as of now. Quarks, along with electrons, form the building blocks of all matter in the universe. A combination of multiple quarks is known as a hadron, which include two type \u2013 the positively charged proton and the neutral neutron.<\/p>\n<p>While quarks have commonly been observed to come in combinations of twos and threes, the newly discovered hadrons are being referred to as \u201cexotic\u201d by the scientists because they feature four and five quarks in them. These particles are called \u2018composite particles\u2019, since they are composed of smaller fundamental building blocks \u2013 the quarks themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers at the European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN) has discovered three new composite particles from observations made through the Large Hadron Collider \u2013 the world\u2019s most powerful particle accelerator located in Switzerland and France. The discovery included a pair of tetraquarks and a pentaquark \u2013 thereby showcasing an even wider range [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141727","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=141727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}