In the News: Finally somenews from the LHC …
Particles in cahoots
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A larger than expected number of charged particles generated during the LHC’s highest energy collisions are doing something they have no business doing. Instead of flying away from the collision site in random directions, these particles are somehow paired, moving away from the point of impact at similar angles and ending up at opposite ends of the collider’s CMS detector.
It’s as if some of the particles “managed to talk to each other” immediately after their creation and stayed in contact while zooming off in opposite directions at close to the speed of light,
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The correlation between particles almost certainly has something to do with quantum chromodynamics, the theory that governs the strong force between subatomic particles such as protons and neutrons in the nuclei of atoms, but it remains unclear exactly what facet of the theory provides an explanation, Roland says.
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The real news here may actually be that no-one really understands quantum chromodynamics …??
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