{"id":13908,"date":"2019-11-28T21:35:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T01:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=13908"},"modified":"2019-11-28T21:35:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T01:35:03","slug":"the-plot-thickens-for-a-hypothetical-x17-particle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/the-plot-thickens-for-a-hypothetical-x17-particle\/","title":{"rendered":"The plot thickens for a hypothetical \u201cX17\u201d particle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"901\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_2019-11-28-The-plot-thickens-for-a-hypothetical-\u201cX17\u201d-particle.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_2019-11-28-The-plot-thickens-for-a-hypothetical-\u201cX17\u201d-particle.png 901w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_2019-11-28-The-plot-thickens-for-a-hypothetical-\u201cX17\u201d-particle-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_2019-11-28-The-plot-thickens-for-a-hypothetical-\u201cX17\u201d-particle-768x532.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 901px) 100vw, 901px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Additional evidence of an unknown particle from a Hungarian lab gives a new impetus to NA64 searches <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>CERN<\/strong>, by <a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/authors\/ana-lopes\">Ana Lopes<\/a> &#8212; November 27, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The NA64 collaboration searches for X17 by firing a beam of tens of billions of electrons from the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/science\/accelerators\/super-proton-synchrotron\"><em>Super Proton Synchrotron<\/em><\/a><em>  accelerator onto a fixed target. If X17 did exist, the interactions  between the electrons and nuclei in the target would sometimes produce  this particle, which would then transform into an electron\u2013positron  pair. The collaboration has so far found no indication that such events  took place, but its datasets allowed them to exclude part of the  possible values for the strength of the interaction between X17 and an  electron. The team is now upgrading their detector for the next round of  searches, which are expected to be more challenging but at the same  time more exciting, says Gninenko.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Among other experiments that could also hunt for X17 in direct searches is the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/science\/experiments\/lhcb\"><em>LHCb experiment<\/em><\/a><em>.  Jesse Thaler, a theoretical physicist from the Massachusetts Institute  of Technology, says: \u201cBy 2023, the LHCb experiment should be able to  make a definitive measurement to confirm or refute the interpretation of  the Atomki anomalies as arising from a new fundamental force. In the  meantime, experiments such as NA64 can continue to chip away at the  possible values for the hypothetical particle\u2019s properties, and every  new analysis brings with it the possibility (however remote) of  discovery.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including image and links at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/news\/news\/physics\/plot-thickens-hypothetical-x17-particle\">https:\/\/home.cern\/news\/news\/physics\/plot-thickens-hypothetical-x17-particle<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Additional evidence of an unknown particle from a Hungarian lab gives a new impetus to NA64 searches CERN, by Ana Lopes &#8212; November 27, 2019 Excerpt: &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. 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