Is That 'Bump' a New Particle?

David Kaplan explains how a curious signal in the Large Hadron Collider's latest data could upset the Standard Model of physics — or mean nothing at all.

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David Kaplan is a theoretical particle physicist at Johns Hopkins University and a producer of the award-winning documentary Particle Fever. Filming by Tom Hurwitz and Richard Fleming. Editing by Lisa Iaboni. Other graphics and images from CERN . Music by Podington Bear.

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