X Particle Explains Dark Matter and Antimatter

Two of the fundamental mysteries of physics now has a new theory to explain them both.  The "X-Particle" is a hypothetical particle that is thought to decay into matter and neutrons.  Created by the big bang, the X-particle had a companion particle the Anti-X-particle, which decayed into anti-matter and neutrons.  It is these particles which have decayed into the matter which we can see and the dark matter we cannot.  This theory has proposed new concepts that could explain why dark matter is so prevalent in the universe.

X Particle Explains Dark Matter and Antimatter at the Same Time | Wired Science | Wired.com: "out dark matter is that it is mysterious stuff that makes up a quarter of the energy density of the unive"

BBC News - US experiment hints at 'multiple God particles'

The Higgs Boson is the subatomic particle that physicists theorize as the particle responsible for attributing mass.  However, it has yet to be detected. Summer results from Fermilab, the LHC's US rival, suggest physicists could be hunting five particles, not one. The idea of multiple Higgs-like bosons is supported by results gathered by the DZero experiment at the Tevatron particle accelerator

"The DZero results showed much more significant "asymmetry" of matter and anti-matter - beyond what could be explained by the Standard Model.

Bogdan Dobrescu, Adam Martin and Patrick J Fox from Fermilab say this large asymmetry effect can be accounted for by the existence of multiple Higgs bosons."

BBC News - US experiment hints at 'multiple God particles'

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Physicists Investigate Possibility of an 'Unhiggs'

This figure represents a five-dimensional diagram relevant to how the Unhiggs affects certain parameters in particle physics models. Physicists are calculating the properties of the Unhiggs so that it will be recognized at the LHC, if it exists. Image credit: Falkowski and Pérez-Victoria.


The Unhiggs is the possibility that the Higgs-Boson doesn't exist.  It is the alternate theory which is really a "supermass" of a collection of particles that are in superposition.  So, measuring the mass of something involves defining the space in which that thing encompasses.  If measuring the mass of an orange, you wouldn't measure anything outside of the orange.  


However, in the quantum world, that orange can change to a watermelon, apple, peach or pumpkin during the time of the measurement.  Therefore, the measurement you get is a combination of all those fruit affecting the measurement for the instant that they were there.  This is similar to the Unhiggs theory which says that mass is formed as a combination of these superposition events.  


Physicists Investigate Possibility of an 'Unhiggs'

A New Experiment in the Hunt for Neutrinos

Astronomers Suspect High Energy Neutrinos Could be Detected on Moon

This article goes to show that even the largest particle collider has nothing on the moon.  In fact, scientists suggest that the moon acts as a large particle collider that can be used to detect high energy neutrinos.  Neutrinos have no electrical charge meaning that they don't react to magnetic fields.  They are difficult to detect because they pass through matter and are extremely rare.  Best case scenario for detecting neutrinos on the moon occurs only a handful of times per month.

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