{"id":186107,"date":"2024-03-27T10:30:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T15:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/physicists-capture-elusive-4d-ghost-in-cern-particle-accelerator"},"modified":"2024-03-27T10:30:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T15:30:02","slug":"physicists-capture-elusive-4d-ghost-in-cern-particle-accelerator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/physicists-capture-elusive-4d-ghost-in-cern-particle-accelerator","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Capture Elusive 4D \u2018Ghost\u2019 in CERN Particle Accelerator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ohciUaOw1BE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a specter haunting the tunnels of a particle accelerator at CERN.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/science\/accelerators\/super-proton-synchrotron\">Super Proton Synchrotron<\/a>, physicists have finally measured and quantified an invisible structure that can divert the course of the particles therein, and create problems for particle research.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s described as taking place in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phase_space\">phase space<\/a>, which can represent one or more states of a moving system. Since four states are required to represent the structure, the researchers view it as four-dimensional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a specter haunting the tunnels of a particle accelerator at CERN. In the Super Proton Synchrotron, physicists have finally measured and quantified an invisible structure that can divert the course of the particles therein, and create problems for particle research. It\u2019s described as taking place in phase space, which can represent one or more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186107","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}