What is the latest discovery from the Large Hadron Collider?

tetraquark
The new particle discovered by LHCb, labelled as Tcc+, is a tetraquark – an exotic hadron containing two quarks and two antiquarks. It is the longest-lived exotic matter particle ever discovered, and the first to contain two heavy quarks and two light antiquarks.

What are some of the most important contributions of the LHC?

CERN is the world’s largest laboratory and is dedicated to the pursuit of fundamental science. The LHC allows scientists to reproduce the conditions that existed within a billionth of a second after the Big Bang by colliding beams of high-energy protons or ions at colossal speeds, close to the speed of light.

What has the particle accelerator discovered?

The hadron collider has now discovered 59 new hadrons. These include the tetraquarks most recently discovered, but also new mesons and baryons. All these new particles contain heavy quarks such as “charm” and “bottom”. These hadrons are interesting to study.

What CERN doing?

At CERN, our work helps to uncover what the universe is made of and how it works. We do this by providing a unique range of particle accelerator facilities to researchers, to advance the boundaries of human knowledge. The Laboratory, established in 1954, has become a prime example of international collaboration.

What did the Hadron Collider do?

The Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful accelerator in the world. It boosts particles, such as protons, which form all the matter we know. These collisions produce massive particles, such as the Higgs boson or the top quark.

How does the Large Hadron Collider work?

Today’s results were produced by the LHCb experiment, one of four huge particle detectors at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC is the world’s largest and most powerful particle collider – it accelerates subatomic particles to almost the speed of light, before smashing them into each other.

When was the last time CERN made a superconducting Collider?

Intersecting Storage Rings CERN, 1971–1984 Superconducting Super Collider Cancelled in 1993 Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider BNL, 2000–present Large Hadron Collider CERN, 2009–present Future Circular Collider Proposed

What are some of the most famous discoveries made at CERN?

The first, and probably most famous discovery was the the Higgs Boson. Dan: The Higgs Boson was detected at Cern in 2012. It’s a particle that has to do with why things have mass, and when one is created it only exists for a split second before decaying and disappearing.

What is the most powerful particle collider in the world?

Large Hadron Collider. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle collider and the largest machine in the world.