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University of California - Riverside

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A schematic description of the experimental anomaly that Tanedo and his colleagues have investigated. Excited beryllium-8 nuclei can decay into their ground state while emitting electron-positron pairs. The results of the experiment suggest the presence of a new force particle, here labelled as X.

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