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Detailed explanation-1: -Geneva: Scientists using the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator have discovered a new system of five particles all in a single analysis.

Detailed explanation-2: -The 27 kilometre-long LHC at CERN is the machine that found the Higgs boson particle. That, along with its linked energy field, is thought to be vital to the formation of the universe after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago.

Detailed explanation-3: -The name CERN is derived from the acronym for the French “Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire", or European Council for Nuclear Research, a provisional body founded in 1952 with the mandate of establishing a world-class fundamental physics research organization in Europe.

Detailed explanation-4: -The international LHCb collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has observed three never-before-seen particles: a new kind of “pentaquark” and the first-ever pair of “tetraquarks”, which includes a new type of tetraquark.

Detailed explanation-5: -The LHC’s new discoveries are: a pentagon that contains a charm quark, a charm antiquark with an up and down quark, and the strange quark.