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Did CERN just discover a new particle, using penguins?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is There a New Particle That Could Be Found?

There's a lot of theorists out there who have ideas for what new particles there might be. A lepto cork is a particle that can talk to corks, and it can talk to leptons. According to our theory, they're totally different. And so it would be exciting if we found a new particle that was sort of like a combination of a cork and a lepton. It would tell us something about how these two very different kinds of particles are connected.

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