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Sunday, September 19, 2021
THE HAPPENING WORLD: Has the XENON1T Experiment Detected Dark Energy?
Have we detected dark energy? Scientists say it’s a possibility https://t.co/bPMnmBkA1B
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A SCANALYZER post on 2021-09-10 discussed the XENON1T experiment and its detection of the decay of Xenon-124 with a half life of 1.8×1022 years, the rarest physical phenomenon ever directly observed. Now, a paper in Physical Review D (full text [PDF]) examines whether the excess electron recoils observed by XENON1T could be due to “chameleon-screened dark energy” quanta produced in the Sun.
Wouldn't it be ironic if a massive detector built to observe dark matter particles ended up detecting dark energy?
Posted at September 19, 2021 12:26