Some unusual new physics may be emerging at the Large Hadron Collider, where particles are behaving in a surprising way. Collisions between protons and lead nuclei might be forming a new type of matter that relies on quantum entanglement, according to particle physicists.

"We have discovered a new particle," CERN director general Rolf Heuer said Wednesday morning. "A boson. Most probably a Higgs boson." Even the most anticipated news in science does not come without some caveats.

Though researchers think the Higgs boson is running out of places to hide, the LHC has yet to provide conclusive proof of its existence. But the ATLAS experiment at the LHC - one of the two main experiments taking precise measurements of particle collisions - has found what is thought to be the first observation of a new particle at the world's largest science experiment. Known as cb(3P) - or Chi-b (3P) - observations of the particle should yield new insights into the strong force that holds atomic nuclei together.