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posted by mrpg on Friday July 07 2017, @10:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the sometimes-collisions-are-good dept.

LHC double heavy particle to shine light on strong force

Scientists have detected a new particle at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern.

The discovery will help researchers learn more about the so-called "strong force" which holds the centres of atoms together.

The existence of the new particle was theoretically predicted but this is the first time it has been identified.

The details of the Xi-cc++ particle were presented at a high-energy physics conference in Venice.

[...] This is the first time that researchers have confirmed the existence of [a particle] with two heavy quarks. According to Prof Guy Wilkinson of Oxford University, there is an intriguing difference between the new particle and the ones that have been discovered before.

"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."


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @09:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @09:22PM (#536271)

    There are far more of these kind of particles outside the accelerator than inside. The momenta of the cosmic rays that slam into our atmosphere are many many orders of magnitude greater [wikipedia.org] than what the LHC can provide.