{"id":28392,"date":"2016-07-28T13:34:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T20:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/physicist-offers-leading-theory-about-mysterious-large-hadron-collider-excess"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:29:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:29:43","slug":"physicist-offers-leading-theory-about-mysterious-large-hadron-collider-excess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/physicist-offers-leading-theory-about-mysterious-large-hadron-collider-excess","title":{"rendered":"Physicist offers leading theory about mysterious Large Hadron Collider excess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicist-offers-leading-theory-about-mysterious-large-hadron-collider-excess.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In December of last year, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe announced startling results hinting at the existence of an undiscovered subatomic particle\u2014one with a mass six times heavier than the Higgs boson, the particle that made headlines in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The evidence is still thin, but if more data confirm the finding, it could sharpen humankind\u2019s understanding of the building blocks of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a very surprising announcement and a puzzle at the same time, because the lifetime and mass of the particle could reveal something else beyond simply one extra particle, if it turns out to be a real signal,\u201d said Kyoungchul \u201cK.C.\u201d Kong, associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas. \u201cYet we do not claim this as a discovery, and we need more data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-07-physicist-theory-mysterious-large-hadron.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;07-physicist-theory-mysterious-large-hadron.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December of last year, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe announced startling results hinting at the existence of an undiscovered subatomic particle\u2014one with a mass six times heavier than the Higgs boson, the particle that made headlines in 2012. The evidence is still thin, but if more data confirm the finding, it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28392","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\/28392","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=28392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66749,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28392\/revisions\/66749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}