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		</div><p>Scientists working at the world’s biggest atom-smasher say they have discovered a new kind of particle called “pentaquarks”.</p>
<p>The existence of pentaquarks was first proposed in the 1960s by American physicists Murray Gell-Mann and Georg Zweig.</p>
<p>The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, or Cern, said the discovery was made by a team working on one of the four experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) beneath the Swiss-French border.</p>
<p>Guy Wilkinson, a spokesman for the LHC team, said studying pentaquarks may help scientists gain a better understanding of “how ordinary matter, the protons and neutrons from which we’re all made, is constituted”.</p>
<p>“This seems to be a very significant observation,” said Anton Andronic, a physicist based at the Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany, who was not involved in the experiment.</p>
<p>“But like any discovery it will have to be confirmed by an independent measurement.”</p>
<p>Previous claims to the detection of pentaquarks have been refuted.</p>
<p>The discovery, if verified, would be the second major find at the Large Hadron Collider, which is used by physicists from around the world.</p>
<p>Cern likened previous attempts to prove the existence of pentaquarks to looking for silhouettes in the dark, “whereas LHCb conducted the search with the lights on, and from all angles”.</p>
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