Dark Matter detector directly observes rare decay of Xe-124

Posted by fabatka on Thursday April 25, 2019 @06:47AM
from the nature.com dept.

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Re:Dark Matter detector directly observes rare decay of Xe-124 by exabrial on Thursday April 25, 2019 @12:34PM (#19749816)

> predicted half-life that surpasses the age of the Universe by many orders of magnitude

Wow.

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Re:Dark Matter detector directly observes rare decay of Xe-124 by aatharuv on Thursday April 25, 2019 @06:21PM (#19753026)

Is there any chance that the half-life of Xenon-124 is lower than previously thought?

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Re:Dark Matter detector directly observes rare decay of Xe-124 by apokkv on Thursday April 25, 2019 @08:27PM (#19753804)

There is always 'some' chance, but the article quotes 1.8 +- 0.5 so the error bars are already quite big.

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