The Large Hadron Collider (the world's largest atomic mixer) found at least two previously unknown particles. Representatives of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), having an underground 27-kilometer ring near Geneva, reported the discovery of two baryons and a hint of another particle. Baryons are fundamental subatomic particles, each of which consists of three quarks. The latter are even smaller particles.
Each type of baryon is endowed with a different combination of quarks. For example, protons are baryons of two upper quarks and one lower. Two new particles are classified as lower baryons. The first was called Σb (6097) +. It consists of a lower quark and two upper quark, and the second Σb (6097) -, represented by one lower quark and two upper. The Hadron Collider experiment smashed protons and studied the photon frequency of some particle decay events. Scientists were looking for “spikes” above a known speed, which may indicate the presence of previously unknown particles. Similar particles were observed in the previous experiment (Illinois), but they differed in that they had a smaller mass. The lower baryons found at CERN are about 6 times more massive than protons. The number 6097 refers to their mass in millions of MeV (the mass of the proton is about 938 MeV).
Regarding the third potential particle, the scientists found only hints of its existence. Named as Z sub c- (4100), it is capable of being a strange meson - a type of unstable particle that occurs during a high-energy collision and is represented by two quarks and two antiquarks.
