You find evidence of a strange disintegration of the Higgs boson.

2023/06/06 Etxebeste Aduriz, Egoitz - Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

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The first evidence of a strange disintegration of the Higgs boson has been found in the LHC accelerator. And researchers think that the standard model of physics opens up the possibility of finding new unannounced particles, as CERN has pointed out.

Since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, researchers from the ATLAS and CMS experiments have been working to know the properties of this particle as accurately as possible. An important part of this work is to understand how the Higgs boson disintegrates and what other particles are formed in this process.

So you've seen that in this disintegration, you could create a Z boson and a photon, carriers of weak force and electromagnetic respectively. But what is most striking to researchers is that the Higgs boson does not decompose directly into these particles, but in the decomposition process other “virtual” particles are produced that cannot be detected directly. And they suspect that some of these particles might be completely new, not predicted by the standard model.