[math-fun] new particle found?

CERN allegedly has found a new particle with mass 750 GeV/c^2. The heaviest standard model fundamental particles had been top quark (173) and Higgs boson (125). What is this new particle? Does it really exist? Maybe it is merely some sort of composite "glueball" and nothing beyond the standard model. CERN does not yet consider itself to have the requisite 5sigma confidence level to announce it certainly exists, but presumably less than 1 more year of data would suffice. Various physicists expressed skepticism. http://www.livescience.com/53130-possible-new-particle-found.html -- Warren D. Smith http://RangeVoting.org <-- add your endorsement (by clicking "endorse" as 1st step)