article_snippet: his proposes that the Higgs boson itself - which gives particles their mass - could disintegrate into dark matter, and his’s hoping the team at Cern can prove his theory.
article_snippet: Previously a Higgs particle has been created in an LHC detector and has then disintegrated into four muons (the four red lines).
article_snippet: ’s model a Higgs particle can also disintegrate into a photon and particles of dark matter .
article_snippet: ’s model, though, contains more ‘elementary particles’ - the smallest known to exist - than the Standard Model.
article_snippet: And the Standard Model also gives the Higgs particle different properties, suggesting that the Higgs can disintegrate into a photon (a particle of light) and particles of dark matter.
article_snippet: Two independent experimental stations - Atlas and CMS - at the Large Hadron Collider are looking for the very properties of the Higgs particle his predicts.
article_snippet: If the very properties of the Higgs are there, the very properties of the Higgs is a clear indication that the Standard Model fits.
article_snippet: [The] LHC is the only place where the Standard Model can be tested.
article_snippet: ’s model, though, contains more ‘elementary particles’ than the Standard Model - and crucially ’s model includes dark matter particles .
article_snippet: Pictured is the Atlas experiment at [The] LHC, one of two instruments trying to prove - or disprove - Dr Petersson's model .
highlights_snippet: Dr Christoffer Petersson from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden says the Higgs boson can disintegrate into dark matter .
  