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New Type of Particle May Have Been Found
An anonymous reader writes "The LHC is out of commission, but the Tevatron collider at Fermilab is still chugging along, and may have just discovered a new type of particle that would signal new physics. New Scientist reports that the Tevatron's CDF detector has found muons that seem to have been created outside of the beam pipe that confines the protons and anti-protons being smashed together. The standard model can't explain the muons, and some speculate that 'an unknown particle with a lifetime of about 20 picoseconds was produced in the collision, traveled about 1 centimeter, through the side of the beam pipe, and then decayed into muons.' The hypothetical particle even seems to have the right mass to account for one theory of dark matter."
"The LHC is out of commission,
This is news to me. Define "out of commission" and give me a link to backup claims.
Homonyms are fun!
You're driving your car, but they're riding their bikes there.
To say that the cancellation of the LHC hurt a lot is a gross understatement.
The cancellation of the SSC cost particle physics at least 20 years, and would have completely eliminated the need for the LHC, and possibly even its hypothetical successor.
Instead, we funded the ISS. Sigh.
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