physics break-through?

https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-claim-a-they-ve-found-even-more-evidence-of-a-new-force-of-nature

I am a bit astonished this has not been brougt here.

It seems thatHungarian Professor Krasznahorkay and his Group have performed Experiments that lead to the conclusion that there is a new bososn with mass 17 eV and a hitherto unknown force carried by that new particle.
As of now the article is in peer-review, but preliminary results have been published already.

I for one am excited a bit.

@ponderable said
https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-claim-a-they-ve-found-even-more-evidence-of-a-new-force-of-nature

I am a bit astonished this has not been brougt here.

It seems thatHungarian Professor Krasznahorkay and his Group have performed Experiments that lead to the conclusion that there is a new bososn with mass 17 eV and a hitherto unknown force carried by that new pa ...[text shortened]... in peer-review, but preliminary results have been published already.

I for one am excited a bit.

Forgive my skepticism, but if there's a fundamental boson with a mass of 17 MeV, and it couples strongly enough to influence the cross-section of beryllium 8 decay, why hasn't it been noticed in accelerator surveys. The mass is small enough that one would expect to be able to detect it with pretty basic equipment.

I'll have a read of the pre-print at some point in the next week and make a less knee-jerky comment then. Their paper is available at:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10459

@deepthought said
Forgive my skepticism, but if there's a fundamental boson with a mass of 17 MeV, and it couples strongly enough to influence the cross-section of beryllium 8 decay, why hasn't it been noticed in accelerator surveys. The mass is small enough that one would expect to be able to detect it with pretty basic equipment.

I'll have a read of the pre-print at some point in the ...[text shortened]... ke a less knee-jerky comment then. Their paper is available at:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10459

Thank you for the link (didn't find that one)

@Ponderable
The word on the street is they made some kind of error. The argument goes, the actual MEV readout is low enough for even college accelerators to have seen and it has not been seen by anyone but them.
Which doesn't mean they are mistaken, the readings may have just been missed by everyone. News at 11......

@sonhouse said
@Ponderable
The word on the street is they made some kind of error. The argument goes, the actual MEV readout is low enough for even college accelerators to have seen and it has not been seen by anyone but them.
Which doesn't mean they are mistaken, the readings may have just been missed by everyone. News at 11......

Hmmmmm, shades of "cold fusion"?

@Suzianne
News at 11....