Scientists have discovered an anomaly at the Large Hadron Collider - three particles are detected 20% more often than the Standard Model predicts

Physicists from CMS and ATLAS conducted the experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. He showed that the W boson, as well as the top quark

and top antiquark are detected slightly more often than predicted by the Standard Model.

What is known

The three particles mentioned above are detected intime of proton-proton collisions. The process of creating them is called ttW. According to scientists, this is a very rare event, occurring on average only once in 50,000 collisions.

Researchers can detect the top quark, its antiparticle, and the W boson solely from decay products. This is due to the fact that all three particles decay almost immediately after birth.

As it became known, the ttW process occurs at 20%more often than predicted by the Standard Model, which describes the electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions of all subatomic particles known to science. The deviation cannot be called large. However, scientists hope that studying the data obtained will help them improve the accuracy of other experiments, including. to search for the Higgs boson.

Scientists believe that the observed in the BolshoiHadron Collider anomaly can have two explanations. First, it is possible that the Standard Model does not contain enough data to study the ttW process. Secondly, the deviation may be indicative of New Physics, which explains the shortcomings of the Standard Model.