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ML Helps in "X" Particle Detection
Courtesy: CERN Photolab Physicists have found evidence of mysterious particles known as "X" particles, which were first thought to form just after the Big Bang. "X" particles, called so because of their mysterious unknown inner structure, were created millionths of a second after the Big Bang. In a trillion degree sea of quarks and gluons that randomly collided, "X" particles were formed before the plasma cooled down and such stable particles as protons and neutrons were created. Today, X particles are extremely rare. X (3872) was first discovered in 2003 by the Belle experiment, a particle collider in Japan that smashes together high-energy electrons and positrons. Within this environment, however, the rare particles decayed too quickly for scientists to examine their structure in detail. Evidence of X particles in the quark-gluon plasma produced in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN based near Geneva, Switzerland has now been found. The LHC's