{"id":70736,"date":"2017-07-06T18:22:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T01:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/lhc-double-heavy-particle-to-shine-light-on-strong-force"},"modified":"2017-07-10T12:00:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T19:00:33","slug":"lhc-double-heavy-particle-to-shine-light-on-strong-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/lhc-double-heavy-particle-to-shine-light-on-strong-force","title":{"rendered":"LHC double heavy particle to shine light on strong force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lhc-double-heavy-particle-to-shine-light-on-strong-force.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In contrast to other particles of this type, in which the three quarks perform an elaborate dance around each other, a particle with two heavy quarks is expected to act like a planetary system, where the heavy quarks are like two stars orbiting one around the other, with the lighter quark orbiting around this binary system.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have detected a new particle at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery will help researchers learn more about the so-called \u201cstrong force\u201d which holds the centres of atoms together.<\/p>\n<p>The existence of the new particle was theoretically predicted but this is the first time it has been identified.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-40521445\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-40521445<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In contrast to other particles of this type, in which the three quarks perform an elaborate dance around each other, a particle with two heavy quarks is expected to act like a planetary system, where the heavy quarks are like two stars orbiting one around the other, with the lighter quark orbiting around this binary [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70736","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\/70736","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\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70813,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70736\/revisions\/70813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}