{"id":151082,"date":"2022-11-25T12:24:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T18:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/breaking-large-hadron-collider-finds-three-never-before-seen-particles"},"modified":"2022-11-25T12:24:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T18:24:01","slug":"breaking-large-hadron-collider-finds-three-never-before-seen-particles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/breaking-large-hadron-collider-finds-three-never-before-seen-particles","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Large Hadron Collider Finds Three Never-Before-Seen Particles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breaking-large-hadron-collider-finds-three-never-before-seen-particles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists say they\u2019ve found evidence in data from Europe\u2019s Large Hadron Collider for three never-before-seen combinations of quarks, just as the world\u2019s largest particle-smasher is beginning a new round of high-energy experiments.<\/p>\n<p>The three exotic types of particles \u2013 which include two four-quark combinations, known as tetraquarks, plus a five-quark unit called a pentaquark \u2013 are totally consistent with the Standard Model, the decades-old theory that describes the structure of atoms.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, scientists hope that the LHC\u2019s current run will turn up evidence of physics that goes beyond the Standard Model to explain the nature of mysterious phenomena such as dark matter. Such evidence could point to new arrays of subatomic particles, or even extra dimensions in our Universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists say they\u2019ve found evidence in data from Europe\u2019s Large Hadron Collider for three never-before-seen combinations of quarks, just as the world\u2019s largest particle-smasher is beginning a new round of high-energy experiments. The three exotic types of particles \u2013 which include two four-quark combinations, known as tetraquarks, plus a five-quark unit called a pentaquark \u2013 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151082","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}