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17th April 2011, 08:54
Mystery signal at Fermilab hints at 'technicolour' force
19:46 07 April 2011 by Amanda Gefter
The physics world is buzzing with news of an unexpected sighting at Fermilab's Tevatron collider in Illinois ? a glimpse of an unidentified particle that, should it prove to be real, will radically alter physicists' prevailing ideas about how nature works and how particles get their mass.
The candidate particle may not belong to the standard model of particle physics, physicists' best theory for how particles and forces interact. Instead, some say it might be the first hint of a new force of nature, called technicolour, which would resolve some problems with the standard model but would leave others unanswered.
http://www.newscientist.com/mobile/article/dn20357
19:46 07 April 2011 by Amanda Gefter
The physics world is buzzing with news of an unexpected sighting at Fermilab's Tevatron collider in Illinois ? a glimpse of an unidentified particle that, should it prove to be real, will radically alter physicists' prevailing ideas about how nature works and how particles get their mass.
The candidate particle may not belong to the standard model of particle physics, physicists' best theory for how particles and forces interact. Instead, some say it might be the first hint of a new force of nature, called technicolour, which would resolve some problems with the standard model but would leave others unanswered.
http://www.newscientist.com/mobile/article/dn20357