{"id":233549,"date":"2026-03-18T02:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/scientists-discover-new-heavy-proton-like-particle-at-cern"},"modified":"2026-03-18T02:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:24:19","slug":"scientists-discover-new-heavy-proton-like-particle-at-cern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/scientists-discover-new-heavy-proton-like-particle-at-cern","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover new heavy proton-like particle at CERN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-new-heavy-proton-like-particle-at-cern.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from the University of Manchester have played a leading role in the discovery of a new subatomic particle at CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The particle, known as the \u039e<sub>cc <\/sub>\u207a (Xi\u2011cc\u2011plus), is a new type of heavy proton-like particle containing two charm quarks and one down quark.<\/p>\n<p>The result is the first particle discovery made using the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-06-lhcb-detectors-high-luminosity-lhc.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">upgraded LHCb detector<\/a>, a major international project involving more than 1,000 scientists across 20 countries. The UK made the largest national contribution to the upgrade, with significant leadership from Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>The newly observed \u039e<sub>cc <\/sub>\u207a is a heavier relative of the proton, which was famously discovered in Manchester by Ernest Rutherford and colleagues in 1917\u20131919. The proton contains two up quarks and a down quark. Details of the \u039e<sub>cc <\/sub>\u207a discovery were presented at the <a href=\"https:\/\/moriond.in2p3.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rencontres de Moriond Electroweak<\/a> conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from the University of Manchester have played a leading role in the discovery of a new subatomic particle at CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The particle, known as the \u039ecc \u207a (Xi\u2011cc\u2011plus), is a new type of heavy proton-like particle containing two charm quarks and one down quark. The result is the first particle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233549","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}