{"id":153011,"date":"2022-12-17T05:24:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T11:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/scientists-at-cern-have-just-detected-a-new-ghost-particle"},"modified":"2022-12-17T05:24:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T11:24:02","slug":"scientists-at-cern-have-just-detected-a-new-ghost-particle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/scientists-at-cern-have-just-detected-a-new-ghost-particle","title":{"rendered":"Scientists At CERN Have just Detected A New \u201cGhost Particle\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-at-cern-have-just-detected-a-new-ghost-particle2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are trying to work out if a strange new particle, dubbed a \u201c<b>ghost particle<\/b>\u201d, has been detected at CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>Using the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) instrument on the particle accelerator, the team said they had seen a signal that could be a particle that\u2019s twice the mass of a carbon atom. But as the particle does not fit known theories, it could cause a bit of a stir if it exists. Their findings, which have not yet been peer-reviewed, are available on arXiv.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019d say theorists are excited and experimentalists are very skeptical,\u201d Alexandre Nikitenko, a theorist on the CMS team who worked on the data, told The Guardian. \u201cAs a physicist I must be very critical, but as the author of this analysis I must have some optimism too.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are trying to work out if a strange new particle, dubbed a \u201cghost particle\u201d, has been detected at CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland. Using the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) instrument on the particle accelerator, the team said they had seen a signal that could be a particle that\u2019s twice the mass of [\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-153011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153011","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=153011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}