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Originally Posted by John Mendenhall
Ah, the KARMEN results were negative on the particle search, although they were looking at 33.9 Mev. Only one group reports a positive result up to about year 2000, and that is for only one instance out of many. They predict approx the same particle, but there is not enough evidence that the particle actually exists.
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Hi John
AFAIK, the sequence of events went something like this.
* I made my prediction in 1994 on my website, at a FSC conference and in usenet (a 1994 reply to the original post in usenet can still be found via google).
* In 1995, KARMEN reported a persistent blip in their neutrino experiment that indicated that a WIMP of mass 33.9 Mev was being produced. They did a lot of things to try and eliminate it but it was consistent.
* For a long time this was without replication effort.
* More recently with the evidence of neutrino mass it seems to have got a second life. That seems to be most of the present articles.
I understand that particle physicists want some additional replications to be sure. However being a WIMP it is not so easy to get results I assume.
regards
Ray