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+-   New type of particle may have been found on Monday November 03 2008, @02:34PM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 03 2008, @02:34PM
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An anonymous reader writes "The LHC is out of commission, but the Tevatron collider at Fermilab is still chugging along, and may have just discovered a new type of particle that would signal new physics. New Scientist reports that the Tevatron's CDF detector has found muons that seem to have been created outside of the beam pipe that confines the protons and anti-protons that are being smashed together. The standard model can't explain the muons, and some speculate that "an unknown particle with a lifetime of about 20 picoseconds was produced in the collision, travelled about 1 centimetre, through the side of the beam pipe, and then decayed into muons." The hypothetical particle even seems to have the right mass to account for dark matter observations."
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