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In contrast, an electron-positron collision consumes the colliding particles’ full energy and produces no extraneous sprays, so physicists often use an e+e- collider to scrutinize the new particles discovered at a hadron collider.

So why do they need an even larger hadron collider?

Although it’s relatively straightforward to compute the influence of virtual photons, muons are also affected by a class of particles called hadrons—clumps of quarks bound together by gluons.

Lambda particles are baryons, which means they’re a type of hadron made of three quarks: one up quark, one down quark and one strange quark.

Most exotic hadrons, which are subatomic particles, are made up of two or three elemental particles known as quarks.