Collider

Large Hadron Collider detects elusive ‘odderon’ quasiparticle 50 YEARS after it was first predicted

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Concluding a hunt that began almost 50 years ago, particle physicists from CERN and the US have detected an elusive and weird phenomenon called the ‘odderon’. It was formed by firing protons at each other at high energies in the Large Hadron Collider, the 17-mile-long particle accelerator circling under the French-Swiss border. This effort built on … Read more

Large Hadron Collider discovers a new type of ‘exotic’ particle

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A new type of ‘exotic particle’ that is made up of four-quarks – also known as a tetraquark – has been discovered by scientists using Large Hadron Collider data. A team from the University of Manchester said the discovery involved sifting through datasets from the first and second collider runs – between 2009 and 2018.  … Read more