RE: Exploiting the results of the CERN LHC - about my own research

[abitcoinskeptic]

BBC News - Dark matter hunt yields unexplained signal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53085260

I knew I would find an example soon. They seem to have some theories as to what it is, but I am personally hoping it's aliens.

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[lemouth]

Naaaaaaah BBC quoted it wrong.... A dark matter experiment found something new, that is probably not dark matter (although myriads of dark matter explanations are probably on their way too).

I recommend the reading of the official press release of the Xenon1T experiment. The collaboration provide three explanations for the excess:

• a sign of tritium in the detector (mis-modelling of some background).
• a non expected neutrino property. This is not a new particle, but instead some weird interactions for an existing one (that have to be induced by some new stuff of course)
• a solar axion (that is a new particle).
  The excess seems to be more compatible with the latter. But the significance of the two others is of the same order. In addition, many theory papers will appear soon. The first one was already announced this morning... (axion-like dark matter).

I was not planning to write on that topic yet, but I actually could. I just have no time at the moment... I will see.

[abitcoinskeptic]

The official press release explains it much better.

With better data from XENONnT, the XENON collaboration is confident it will soon find out whether this excess is a mere statistical fluke, a background contaminant, or something far more exciting: a new particle or interaction that goes beyond known physics.

I guess we will find out sooner or later which of the 3 explains it.

Only a few tritium atoms for every 1 X 10^25 (10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000!) xenon atoms would be needed to explain the excess.

Although the tritium seems like the most boring, the large finite numbers and the ability to detect or calculate this always amaze me...talk about finding a needle in a haystack.

[lemouth]

In fact, it is more about finding a needle in a needle stack! :)

I may eventually write about this news next week. I have read to many incorrect articles about it (even on Hive).