Cern’s Large Hadron Collider has discovered a new type of particle

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Scientists working at the world’s biggest atom-smasher say they have discovered a new kind of particle called &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;pentaquarks”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The existence of pentaquarks was first proposed in the 1960s by American physicists Murray Gell-Mann and Georg Zweig&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The European Organisation for Nuclear Research&comma; or Cern&comma; said the discovery was made by a team working on one of the four experiments at the Large Hadron Collider &lpar;LHC&rpar; beneath the Swiss-French border&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Guy Wilkinson&comma; a spokesman for the LHC team&comma; said studying pentaquarks may help scientists gain a better understanding of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;how ordinary matter&comma; the protons and neutrons from which we’re all made&comma; is constituted”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This seems to be a very significant observation&comma;” said Anton Andronic&comma; a physicist based at the Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt&comma; Germany&comma; who was not involved in the experiment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But like any discovery it will have to be confirmed by an independent measurement&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Previous claims to the detection of pentaquarks have been refuted&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The discovery&comma; if verified&comma; would be the second major find at the Large Hadron Collider&comma; which is used by physicists from around the world&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Cern likened previous attempts to prove the existence of pentaquarks to looking for silhouettes in the dark&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;whereas LHCb conducted the search with the lights on&comma; and from all angles”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed123088edf">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed123088edf'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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