{"id":238057,"date":"2026-05-30T19:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T00:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/cern-physicists-observe-new-exotic-particle"},"modified":"2026-05-30T19:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T00:05:12","slug":"cern-physicists-observe-new-exotic-particle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/cern-physicists-observe-new-exotic-particle","title":{"rendered":"CERN Physicists Observe New Exotic Particle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cern-physicists-observe-new-exotic-particle.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists with the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have observed the Bc*+ meson, an excited version of the Bc+ meson \u2014 both consist of a charm quark and a bottom antiquark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists with the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have observed the Bc*+ meson, an excited version of the Bc+ meson \u2014 both consist of a charm quark and a bottom antiquark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238057","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=238057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}