It is a strange and sometimes incomprehensible world we live in.
In! With New Fundamental Physics!
Scientists may have discovered the fifth force of nature
https://www.techexplorist.com/scientists-discovered-fifth-force-nature/27946/
“ In this new study, scientists have seen a second example of the
mysterious force at play. As reports suggest, they observed it in the
particle, which they called X17. ”
(Oh? X17, is it?)
The particle has been named X17, as its mass is calculated to be 17
megaelectronvolts.
Back in 2016, Attila Krasznahorkay and his colleagues suspected
something weird after analyzing the way an excited beryllium-8 emits light
as it decays. Based on the law of conservation of energy, as the energy of
the light-producing the two particles increases, the angle between them
should decrease.
But this is not what they observed. Among their tally of angles, there was a
surprising ascent in the number of electrons and positrons isolating at an
edge of 140 degrees.
The study soon impressed scientists around the globe, who suggested that
a whole new particle could be responsible for the anomaly. What’s more,
that particle must be a whole new kind of fundamental boson with a
distinctive mass of (17 megaelectronvolts, or about 33 times that of an
electron).
Studying the particle, scientists found pairs of electrons and positrons
separating at an angle that didn’t match currently accepted models. This
time, the number was closer to 115 degrees.
The team also quantified the helium’s nucleus that could also have
produced a short-lived boson with a mass just under 17 megaelectronvolts.
Scientists noted in the paper, “If the particle’s existence is confirmed, it
means physicists will have to finally reassess the interactions of the
existing four fundamental forces of particle physics and make space for a
fifth. We are expecting more, independent experimental results to come for
the X17 particle in the coming years.”
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