Scientists from European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) They just announced they were opening three new exotic particles. This name may make us take a trip to the Caribbean, but it doesn’t really refer to that exotic. And this is what was found thanks to large hadron collider (LHC)known for the discovery of the famous Higgs boson, are three types of unconventional subatomic particles, specifically one pentaquark and two tetraquarks.
The main goal of the LHC is to find answers to somefundamental questions of physics which refer to the basic laws that govern the interactions and forces between elementary particles. Thus, they could also find out how relevant theories such as general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.
To understand all this deeply, it is very important to know as many actors on the stage as possible. And that, of course, includes all those new exotic particles detected by the LHC. But let’s see what exactly they are and why they have nothing to do with drinking mojitos on the beach.
The LHC and the Search for Exotic Particles
buck with it 27 kilometers long, is the largest particle accelerator in existence. But this is also collider. This means that it accelerates two particle beams to very high kinetic velocities, causing them to collide. It then uses a series of sensors to detect the products of each of these failures. This is how subatomic particles such as hadrons are detected.
it subatomic particles formed quarks that are held together strong nuclear force. Translated from physics to mortal language, these are particles smaller than an atom, formed by the union of a massive version of one of the most elementary particles in nature, due to one of the four fundamental forces that explain the relationships between known particles.
To boil it down to what we all know, the most common hadrons are those made up of two or three quarks. This is the case protons and neutrons is found in the nuclei of atoms. However, more quarks can also be grouped together. This is much rarer, which is why it is known as exotic particles. In this case, LHC CERN found a group of five, the pentaquark, and two groups of four, known as tetraquarks.
What is all this for?
The existence of exotic particles such as tetraquarks or pentaquarks has been predicted. about 60 years ago. However, it took four decades to discover them, thanks to the LHC.
However, they are not all the same. The ones that have been discovered so far properties different from the previous ones, therefore new types of exotic particles are considered. And it’s very helpful. In fact, as explained in the project representative’s statement, Chris Parks, “discovering new kinds of tetraquarks and pentaquarks and measuring their properties will help theorists develop a unified model for exotic hadrons, the exact nature of which is largely unknown.” In addition, “this will help better understand ordinary hadrons“.
In short, it will help to understand much more comprehensively how matter is formed, down to the smallest particles. It is clearly visible, although it has nothing to do with the Caribbean Sea, but it all sounds very exotic.
Source: Hiper Textual
