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> Presumably this was a result of the LHC's power upgrade to 13 TeV

Eh... despite what the other guy is saying, you can't really say this for sure. These bumps appear in a region that was accessible during Run 1 at 7 and 8 TeV.

See figure 3: http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.05511

If it is something real, and not just a statistical fluctuation (that's a big if), then it would have to be e.g. some decay product of a much heavier particle to account for why it wasn't seen during Run 1.

> If so, should they now be able to repeatedly get these results again and again?

Again, depends if it's a real effect or a fluctuation.




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