{"id":233529,"date":"2026-03-18T02:02:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/cern-discovers-new-particle-after-upgrading-large-hadron-collider"},"modified":"2026-03-18T02:02:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:02:52","slug":"cern-discovers-new-particle-after-upgrading-large-hadron-collider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/cern-discovers-new-particle-after-upgrading-large-hadron-collider","title":{"rendered":"CERN Discovers New Particle After Upgrading Large Hadron Collider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cern-discovers-new-particle-after-upgrading-large-hadron-collider.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Large Hadron Collider has discovered a new particle, the 80th identified so far by the world\u2019s most powerful particle smasher, Europe\u2019s CERN physics laboratory <a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/news\/news\/physics\/lhcb-collaboration-discovers-new-proton-particle\">announced Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new particle has been named \u201cXi-cc-plus\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scientists hope the particle \u2013 which is similar to a proton but four times heavier \u2013 will reveal more about the strange behaviour of quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Large Hadron Collider has discovered a new particle, the 80th identified so far by the world\u2019s most powerful particle smasher, Europe\u2019s CERN physics laboratory announced Tuesday. The new particle has been named \u201cXi-cc-plus\u201d Scientists hope the particle \u2013 which is similar to a proton but four times heavier \u2013 will reveal more about the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233529","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}