Scientists use newly-upgraded LHC to ‘break’ robust theories

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MEXICO: Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland have stated that they want to use the newly-upgraded LHC to ‘break’ their robust theories.
They have added that they will attempt to test a new model of particle physics — one that attempts to explain the origin of the mysterious dark matter, which constitutes over 84% of the total matter in the universe.
Dark matter has long remained one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the universe. Even though its presence can be inferred from the gravitational pull it exerts on visible matter, the fact that it does not emit or absorb any radiation makes it next to impossible to detect.
However, Christoffer Petersson, theoretical particle physicist from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, believes that Higgs boson, discovered by the LHC in 2012, might be responsible for the birth of dark matter particles. According to the model created by the CERN scientists, the Higgs particle can disintegrate into a photon — a light carrying particle — and a dark matter particle.
The scientists added that if supersymmetry is real, the Higgs boson may have another mode of decay, disintegrating into photons and dark matter particles. And the LHC’s ATLAS and CMS experiments are on the look-out for this theorized decay mechanism.