Leptons Popping out of Thin Air
Physicists at the CMS experiment have been searching for new particles in exciting new places. In a recently published paper, they explore the possibility that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) could be producing never-before-seen particles that travel into the CMS detector before transforming into known particles. And because no one knows for sure what undiscovered particles might look like, the scientists design the search to be as simple as possible to make sure it can test many theories at once, including ones that have yet to be imagined.