RE: June 17th, 2020 - a great discovery in (astro)particle physics?
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When I read about it in the press last week I immediately thought to myself, what will @lemouth say about this. Now I know. Great explanation and assessment of these findings for non-physicists.
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I wanted to write about this story already last Wednesday, but time is what it is... :)
I still hesitate about starting to work on that. First, 3sigma is 3 sigma. This means that this may disappear. 3 sigma is also only meaningful if the background is well understood. From what XENON1T reported, the answer to this question is not super clear.
In addition, in terms of the potential interpretations, most usual (and thus boring) suspects for an explanation have already been explored. I would prefer to focus on something most appealing.
On the fun side, I can bet that a few hundreds of theory papers (I am not exaggerating here) will be released in the next couple of months. ^^