Some of the greatest mysteries of physics, including the nature of dark matter, could be unlocked thanks to the findings of the most comprehensive studies of the particle.
There were two new studies based on the data from the second run of the Large Hadron collider.
The studies were published on the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson. The Standard Model of particle physics describes how the building blocks of the universe hold together.
There is a renewed search for new physics.
The Standard Model has a part in it. The particle carries a quantum field that gives other particles their mass.
A detailed map of its interactions with force carriers and matter particles has been provided by the two experiments. There are very profound questions related to the evolution of the early universe and its stability, as well as to the striking mass pattern of matter particles.
Physicists studied how the particles interact with one another. Scientists believe that, somewhere in this chain reaction, they could produce dark matter, which is believed to make up 80% of all matter in the universe.
Luca Malgeri said that it was not possible to sketch such a portrait before the LHC started operating. The reasons for this achievement are many and include the exceptional performances of the LHC and of the detectors.
The Large Hadron Collider, run by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, restarted earlier this year with its third run of experiments that will see it smash particles with even greater force than before The new batches of studies will further improve the measurement of the interactions of the particles.
The studies describe the experiments in the journal Nature.
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