{"id":172358,"date":"2023-09-19T14:22:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T19:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/dark-photons-could-explain-one-of-the-universes-greatest-mysteries"},"modified":"2023-09-19T14:22:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T19:22:20","slug":"dark-photons-could-explain-one-of-the-universes-greatest-mysteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/dark-photons-could-explain-one-of-the-universes-greatest-mysteries","title":{"rendered":"Dark Photons Could Explain One of The Universe\u2019s Greatest Mysteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dark-photons-could-explain-one-of-the-universes-greatest-mysteries3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A shadowy form of light within a universe of hypothetical particles is getting some serious consideration as a means of discovering the identity of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/dark-matter\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">dark matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to a comprehensive new analysis under quantum chromodynamics, the dark photon is a much better fit for the observed results of particle collider experiments than the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-standard-model\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">standard model<\/a> of particle physics, by quite a wide margin.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, a team of researchers led by physicist Nicholas Hunt-Smith of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centredarkmatter.org\/\">ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics<\/a> and the University of Adelaide in Australia calculated a confidence level of 6.5 sigma, suggesting the odds that dark photons don\u2019t explain the observations are in the ballpark of one in a billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shadowy form of light within a universe of hypothetical particles is getting some serious consideration as a means of discovering the identity of dark matter. According to a comprehensive new analysis under quantum chromodynamics, the dark photon is a much better fit for the observed results of particle collider experiments than the standard model [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}