Higgs boson examined as source of dark matter at the LHC

It’s been calculated that dark matter is around five times more common than regular matter – and yet, we still haven’t directly detected it. Many different types of experiments are trying to find it, and now CERN has joined the hunt, testing whether the famous Higgs boson could decay into dark matter.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

Higgs boson examined as source of dark matter at the LHC

It’s been calculated that dark matter is around five times more common than regular matter – and yet, we still haven’t directly detected it. Many different types of experiments are trying to find it, and now CERN has joined the hunt, testing whether the famous Higgs boson could decay into dark matter.

more…

> Only one invisible decay product fits the Standard Model – if the Higgs decays into four neutrinos – but that’s extremely unlikely, at a likelihood of about 0.1 percent. That means that if non-detections happen with any regularity, we might have stumbled onto new particles. And one of those invisible particles could be dark matter.

Definitely worth looking into. Not that 0.1% could ever be considered “extremely” unlikely..