{"id":27424,"date":"2016-07-01T11:47:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T18:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/physicists-have-discovered-what-looks-like-an-entire-family-of-new-particles-in-the-lhc"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:28:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:28:08","slug":"physicists-have-discovered-what-looks-like-an-entire-family-of-new-particles-in-the-lhc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/physicists-have-discovered-what-looks-like-an-entire-family-of-new-particles-in-the-lhc","title":{"rendered":"Physicists have discovered what looks like an entire family of new particles in the LHC"},"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\/LraNu_78sCw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Physicists working with the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment (LHCb) have discovered what appears to be an entire family of new particles that our current physics models can\u2019t explain.<\/p>\n<p>The existence of these new forms of matter, known as tetraquarks, challenges our current understanding of the role they play inside the protons and neutrons that make up atoms \u2014 the fundamental building blocks of everything we know and love in the Universe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe looked at every known particle and process to make sure these four structures couldn\u2019t be explained by any pre-existing physics,\u201d one of the team, Thomas Britton from Syracuse University, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.symmetrymagazine.org\/article\/lhcb-discovers-family-of-tetraquarks\">told Sarah Charley at <em>Symmetry.<\/em><\/a> \u201cIt was like baking a six-dimensional cake with 98 ingredients and no recipe \u2014 just a picture of a cake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-just-discovered-an-entire-family-of-new-particles-in-the-lhc\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-just-discovered-an-en...in-the-lhc<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists working with the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment (LHCb) have discovered what appears to be an entire family of new particles that our current physics models can\u2019t explain. The existence of these new forms of matter, known as tetraquarks, challenges our current understanding of the role they play inside the protons and neutrons that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27424","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40947,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27424\/revisions\/40947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}