Something to watch for in the new data from the Large Hadron Collider
by Jon Butterworth from on (#CKTN)
A new result released by the ATLAS experiment at CERN shows an intriguing anomaly, which could be evidence for a new particle with a mass of about two thousand times the mass of a proton. How excited should be we be?
I'm going to try to walk a line here, between hyping a result and being overly conservative. Let's see how it goes.
As has been widely reported, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN is in operation again, colliding particles at a higher energy of 13 tera-electron-Volts (TeV), compared to 8 TeV in 2012. Having discovered the Higgs boson - the last particle predicted by the "Standard Model" of particle physics, hope and fears abound as to what might be revealed by the data now being collected.
