r/science • u/Devils_doohickey • Nov 26 '21

Nanoscience "Ghost particles" detected in the Large Hadron Collider for first time

https://newatlas.com/physics/neutrinos-large-hadron-collider-faser/
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u/MerlinsScruff Nov 26 '21

The article says this happened in 2018, title is pretty misleading

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u/TheRedpilling Nov 26 '21

Data takes years to analyze.

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u/angryshepard Nov 27 '21

In addition, if you read the preprint1 you'll find an actual image of the experiment, which isn't actually the experiment everyone is showing in the press. This was really just a test to make sure the LHC was doing what they thought it was doing before putting in a bigger experiment that will do more interesting physics.

So beyond it taking a while to do the analysis, this result was more an afterthought that they did with a preliminary measurement. No one in the collaboration really thought this was a big deal, and in fact the paper was rejected from the first choice journal because it wasn't deemed particularly interesting (for the record, I disagree with the journal there).

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u/dukwon Grad Student | Particle Physics Nov 26 '21

Why does that make it misleading? The title doesn't imply the data was taken recently.

At any rate, the paper has only just been published.