The standard model of particle physics may be broken, expert says

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The standard model of particle physics may be broken, expert says

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MAY 9, 2022
The standard model of particle physics may be broken, expert says
by Roger Jones,
As a physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern, one of the most frequent questions
I am asked is "When are you going to find something?" Resisting the temptation to sarcastically reply
"Aside from the Higgs boson, which won the Nobel Prize, and a whole slew of new composite particles?"
I realize that the reason the question is posed so often is down to how we have portrayed progress in particle physics to the wider world.
https://phys.org/news/2022-05-standard- ... HRpfROTMpA

The discovery of new LHC particles requires high energies and pure vacuum.
The higher the energy and the cleaner the vacuum, the more opportunities to find new particles.
Without vacuum, the LHC is a useless toy. Problem. The LHC Vacuum is a small copy of the Cosmic Vacuum,
which is filled with an infinite number of different quantum particles.
Therefore, the search for new particles is an endless process, and therefore the work of the LHC is Sisyphean.
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