A New Particle That Can Unlock Secrets of Dark Matter Found

                Scientists, including those from India, have predicted the existence of a new fundamental particle – Madala boson – which may help solve the mystery of the elusive dark matter in the universe. Using data from a series of experiments that led to the discovery of the Higgs boson at European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 2012, the group established what they call the Madala hypotheses, in describing a new boson, named as the Madala boson. The experiment was repeated last year and this year, after a two and a half year shut down of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The data reported by the LHC experiments this year have corroborated the features in the data that triggered the Madala hypothesis.

                Based on a number of features and peculiarities of the data reported by the experiments at the LHC and collected up to the end of 2012, the Wits HEP group in collaboration with the scientists in India and Sweden formulated the Madala hypothesis. The hypothesis describes the existence of a new boson and field, similar to the Higgs boson. However, where the Higgs boson in the Standard Model of Physics only interacts with known matter, the Madala boson interacts with dark matter, which makes about 27% of the universe. With the discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC in 2012 the Standard Model of Physics is now complete. However this model is insufficient to describe a number of phenomena such as dark matter.