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A rare find in the world of particles: DESY researchers at CERN have observed the top quark together with a W and a Z particle for the first time. This little sensation could open up completely new insights into the mysterious Higgs field and possible extensions of the Standard Model. It seems almost impossible that there are still undiscovered discoveries waiting to be made in the sea of data from the LHC particle accelerator at CERN. Over many years, billions of collisions between protons have been recorded there – carefully scrutinised by hundreds of working groups and thousands of scientists around the world. However, DESY scientist Roman Kogler and his doctoral student Alberto Belvedere have just achieved the seemingly impossible: for the very first time, they have detected the joint production of a quark called "top" and two messenger particles called "W" and "Z", as they report in the journal Physical Review Letters. This is interesting not only because it is the first time it has happened, but also because it confirms a long-held assumption and now offers researchers completely new methods for investigating the Higgs field. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dX7CGZTV