Scientists at CERN have discovered a new particle through the use of the Large Hadron Collider. They announced last Friday that the new particle is actually called "neutral Xi_b^star" and is in fact a baryon.
The baryon is made up of three quarks and exists for an incredibly short amount of time. "It lives for less time than you or me can imagine," Carlos Lourenco, a lead scientist at CERN said in an interview. The particle can only exist on earth in the LHC, and sometimes in space. An example of when it could exist in space is when a huge cosmic ray hits the moon.
As for the Higgs Boson, scientists hope that they will finally find the particle be the end of the year.
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