Diphoton bump at LHC leads to generation of hundreds of theoretical papers

(Phys.org)--Last year, two teams working at the LHC reported that they had found proton-to-proton collisions that had led to the creation of more photon pairs (with energies of approximately 750 GeV) than was expected, leading to theories that the evidence might be pointing to a new particle than no one has theorized. This discovery led to a plethora of teams creating papers seeking to be the first to explain this seeming anomaly--so many papers have been submitted to journals for publication th...