RE: Discussing my own research - hunting for flavorful new phenomena at the Large Hadron Collider

[irelandscape]

I like it when scientists try to prove the existence of invisible particles (DM) by colliding hypothetical particles (squarks) 😂

It's like solving a single equation with 3 unknowns! 😀

Thanks for another good post!

Comments

[lemouth]

We are not really colliding squarks. We re producing squarks from proton collisions. The point is that the model contains a dark matter candidate, so that any new particle must decay into dark matter eventually. So whatever we produce, dark matter will be involved ;)

[irelandscape]

Ok but your are colliding protons to produce hypothetical particles (squarks) which decays into known particles (quarks) and other hypothetical particles (DM). 😋

[lemouth]

Yep, as predicted by the full model that contains several dozens of new particles. The heavier ones decaying into the lighter ones decaying themselves into even lighter ones until the lightest: the dark matter candidate.