Universe (Oct 2024)

An Update of the Hypothetical X17 Particle

  • Attila J. Krasznahorkay,
  • Attila Krasznahorkay,
  • Margit Csatlós,
  • János Timár,
  • Marcell Begala,
  • Attila Krakó,
  • István Rajta,
  • István Vajda,
  • Nándor J. Sas

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/universe10110409
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 11
p. 409

Abstract

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Recently, when examining the differential internal pair creation coefficients of 8Be, 4He and 12C nuclei, we observed peak-like anomalies in the angular correlation of the e+e− pairs. This was interpreted as the creation and immediate decay of an intermediate bosonic particle with a mass of mXc2≈ 17 MeV, receiving the name X17 in subsequent publications. In this paper, our latest results obtained for the X17 particle are presented by investigating the e+e− pair correlations in the decay of the Giant Dipole Resonance (GDR) of 8Be. Our results initiated a significant number of new experiments all over the world to detect the X17 particle and determine its properties. In this paper, we will also conduct a mini-review of the experiments whose results are already published, as well as the ones closest to being published.

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