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What did CERN find?
The LHC has now discovered 59 new hadrons. These include the tetraquarks most recently discovered, but also new mesons and baryons. All these new particles contain heavy quarks such as “charm” and “bottom”. These hadrons are interesting to study.
What else might the LHC find?
The hadron collider has now discovered 59 new hadrons. These include the tetraquarks most recently discovered, but also new mesons and baryons. All these new particles contain heavy quarks such as “charm” and “bottom”. These hadrons are interesting to study.
Where are the CERN machines located?
Geneva, Switzerland
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built. The accelerator sits in a tunnel 100 metres underground at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.
Why is the Higgs boson called the “God Particle”?
The Higgs Boson is better-known by its colloquial name, “the God Particle,” so-called because for a generation, scientists had to take it on faith that it existed . And while the God Particle name may ring bells for many, it still isn’t nearly as well-known as the massive device used to finally prove its existence-the Large Hadron Collider.
Why is the Higgs boson so important to physicists?
For the sake of simplicity we will continue to refer to the boson, mechanism and field associated with the theory as the Higgs boson, the Higgs mechanism and the Higgs field. Looking at the history of the Standard Model the reason that Higgs’ theory is regarded as so important is that it is the last piece of the jigsaw that enabled physicists explain the mass of particles .
Does dark matter originate from Higgs boson?
The new model put forward by a team headed by Christoffer Petersson, a theoretical particle physicist from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, suggests that the Higgs boson , discovered by the LHC in 2012, might be responsible for the birth of dark matter particles.
Can the Higgs boson be used as a weapon?
Everything, in principle, can be used as a weapon provided there is a hateful intelligence behind. The Higgs Boson is the most unprobable weapon I could think about many, but there is no limit to human stupidity.