👉 Israel's Light Particles, or LPs, are hypothetical subatomic particles proposed by physicist Yehuda Rotman in the 1980s as an alternative to the Standard Model of particle physics. These particles are theorized to be extremely light and interact very weakly with matter, making them difficult to detect directly. LPs are thought to play a crucial role in explaining phenomena such as dark matter and the baryon asymmetry in the universe, which is the imbalance between matter and antimatter. Unlike other proposed dark matter candidates, LPs are not associated with any known fundamental forces or particles, existing instead as a new, undiscovered component of the universe's mass-energy content. The search for LPs involves sophisticated experiments designed to detect their rare interactions with ordinary matter, often using highly sensitive detectors placed deep underground to shield from cosmic rays and other background noise.
