RE: A new Boson?
March 17, 2016 at 6:50 pm
(This post was last modified: March 17, 2016 at 6:59 pm by Alex K.)
(March 17, 2016 at 6:44 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Explain a little better for us laypersons please.
Are you saying there might be other unique unknown particles where none were predicted via the maths previously?
Exactly. The Higgs boson was expected because the theory needed it or something like it, but after that the maths was complete, simply speaking, and it's not clear whether there are new particles to discover. Dark matter is the clearest hint that there should be new particles. This one can't be the dark matter because it obviously decays - but it could be related to dark matter and enable us to discover it.
If the signal is real, It would require an entirely new theory which would open up unexpected possibilities for research. There are many ideas what it could be of course.
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