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Episode 4 21:57

Things That Go Bump In The Light

An unexplained bump in diphoton data. Fluctuation, or a new era?

In this episode, we explore an intriguing new result from ATLAS and CMS looking for new sources of photon pairs.

Do we have a statistical fluctuation, or is this the beginning of a new era in particle physics? Is this unexplained bump a close cousin of the Higgs boson, a hint for understanding dark matter, or something no one has thought of? We ask our colleagues what they think might be peeking out of the data.