Kharkiv’s Imprint at the Heart of CERN: How Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider Caught a "Ghost"

Collage by Elena Zelenina.

The LHCb international collaboration at CERN has officially announced a sensation: the elusive “ghost” of the microworld has been caught — the superheavy particle “Omega-cc-plus,” which scientists have been searching for for over 50 years. And this historical puzzle of a global scale was also being put together in Kharkiv!