In December 2015, rumors began to spread on social networks and microblogs that the LHC had succeeded
For comparison, the Higgs boson has a mass of 126 GeV, and the top quark, the heaviest elementary particle, weighs 173 GeV, which is four times less than the mass of the particle that produced the photons.
Many theories suggest the existencesuperheavy particles that can decay into pairs of Higgs bosons. This role can be claimed by both heavy analogues of the Higgs boson and other bosons. Until recently, we could not find any evidence of their existence.
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Physicists, using neural network algorithms, searched for chains of particle decays that involved Higgs boson pairs, tau leptons, and particles containing heavy pretty quarks.
Some modifications to the Standard Model -theories that describe most of the interactions of all elementary particles known to science—suggest that these processes may hide traces of superheavy analogues of the Higgs boson and other carriers of fundamental interactions that do not fit into the modern ideas of scientists.
It turned out that the decays in which they participatedpair of Higgs bosons were almost five times more than the Standard Model says. The authors of the new work attributed this to the decays of superheavy particles, which were about eight times heavier than the already discovered Higgs boson.
So far, this is not absolute proof of the existence of a superheavy boson, but only hints of it, so physicists plan to accumulate more data to draw long-term conclusions.
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