New Fundamental Particle Discovered?? + Challenge Winners!
June 8, 2016
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Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider may have just discovered a new fundamental particle that could change the way we look at the universe. Is this Dark Energy? A giant Neutrino? The big brother of the Higgs Boson? Or could it be the mysterious Graviton? Matt also reveals the answer to the Dark Energy Challenge question and responds to comments from the Ice Age episode. We’ve got a lot going on, so check it out!
Examples from four of the major families of theoretical explanations for the 750 GeV excess
Written and hosted by Matt O’Dowd
Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)
Challenge Winners:
Pete Benzi astronomianova@gmail.com
Ingrid Skard ingrid.skard@gmail.com
Ryan Brown Ryan.Brown@unb.ca
Nicolai Veliki nickveliki@gmail.com
Sandra Unruh s6saunru@uni-bonn.de
Alex Gravenor blazingkin@gmail.com
Brian Ross bross14@jhmi.edu
You can review a more in-depth explanation of the challenge answers at the link below. The first document is the main question solution described in this video, and the second is the extra credit. The third provides the details of an analytical solution to the integral. Special thanks to Pete Benzi, who is not only one of our winners but also but also generously provided the extra credit solution (incl. the integral) we link to here. His was much more clearly presented than ours!
Main and extra credit solutions
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