From the end of 2015 until now, the particle physics community had been all abuzz about an incredible new possibility: a new fundamental particle that the LHC showed hints of. It couldn’t have been a quark, a lepton, or any of the predicted bosons. It appeared to be more massive than anything else ever discovered at 750 GeV of energy, four times the mass of the top quark, the heaviest known particle. And signals of it appeared in both detectors’ data, CMS and ATLAS, independently. Many physicists were touting that this was most likely real, excited that the first fundamental particle beyond the Standard Model was about to be discovered. Some were even giving ridiculously long odds against its discovery, claiming there was less than a 1-in-1,000 chance this wasn’t real. If you looked at the 2015 data, there was very clearly something going on at that particular energy, and it was the great hope of physicists that more data would elevate this hint into the realm of robust discovery.

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