The European Center for Nuclear Research CERN says scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have discovered three previously unseen subatomic particles as they work to unlock the building blocks of the universe. creation of the universe, the European center for nuclear research CERN said on Tuesday.
The LHC is 27 km (16.8 mi) long at CERN is the machine that found Higgs boson The particle, together with its binding energy field, is thought to be important for the formation of The universe after Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago.
Now, scientists at CERN say they have observed a new type of “pentaquark” and the first pair of “tetraquarks,” adding three members to the list of new hadrons found at the LHC.
They will help physicists better understand how quarks bind together into composite particles.
Quarks are elementary particles that often combine in groups of two and three to form hadrons such as protons and neutrons that make up the nucleus of an atom.
More rarely, however, they can also combine into four-quark and five-quark particles, or tetraquarks and pentaquarks.
“The more analysis we do, the more exotic types of hadrons we find,” says physicist Niels Tuning speak in a statement.
“We are witnessing a period of discovery similar to the 1950s, when a ‘particle zoo’ of hadrons began to be discovered and eventually led to the quark model of the common hadron in the 1960s. We’re creating ‘grain zoo 2.0’.”
In the other evolutionTen years after the discovery of the Higgs Boson, the Large Hadron Collider is set to begin smashing protons together at unprecedented energies in a quest to reveal more secrets about how the universe works.
The world’s largest and most powerful particle collider resumed operations in April after a three-year pause to upgrade in preparation for its third run.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced from Tuesday it will run for nearly four years with a record energy of 13.6 trillion electronvolts, during a press conference last week.
