Scientists now believe they have a method to demonstrate their existence.
Cern, Europe’s center for particle physics, has approved an experiment designed to provide evidence for them.
The new apparatus will be a thousand times more sensitive to these particles than previous ones.
It will smash particles onto a hard surface instead of detecting particles against one another, as does Cern’s main device, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
There might be a physics revolution sparked by a new atom-smasher.
Investigating the mystery of antimatter.
A 37-year-old “murder mystery” in space has been solved by scientists.
So what are these spectral particles and why did the search for them require a new approach?
Currently accepted particle physics theory is called the Standard Model.
It states that the family of 17 particles that make up the universe includes the well-known electron and Higgs boson as well as the less well-known but evocatively named charm quark, tau neutrino, and gluon.
