Physicists at CERN announced that they discovered, with the same massive particle accelerator that found the Higgs Boson, two new ultra-weight subatomic particles last month.
The Large Hadron Collider is a 17-mile long underground "matter-track" that accelerates two opposing beams of particles almost equal to the speed of light. Particles collide within the temperatures more then 100,000 times hotter then the center of the sun.
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The newly announced particles are known as baryons and they are six times more massive than protons. Like protons, baryons are made of three strongly-bound elementary particles called quarks, which are thought to be some of the smallest units of matter. They can provide clues for understanding the forces that keep them and the most basic building blocks of matter together.
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CERN coordinator Patrick Koppenburg said: "Such high-precision studies will help us to differentiate between Standard Model effects and anything new or unexpected in the future."
“If we want to find new physics beyond the Standard Model, we need first to have a sharp picture,” Koppenburg said.



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