
How many particles has the Large Hadron Collider discovered?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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How to Find a Higgs Bozon
We are creating high energy density. We're pushing things up the ladder, and they exist very briefly,. Then they fall apart back into low mass, stable particles. And you know, this is just what the universe does. You gather bunch of energy together, it likes to spread it out. So we create these new heavy particles, like a top cork or a higg's bozon. They last in that state. We know they exist, but they are only there for like, ten to the minus 20 seconds. It's like the briefest moment in the sun, before they decay back into lighter stuff. Rit often you don't even detect the particles you're looking for
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