{"id":4976,"date":"2016-09-03T10:55:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T15:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=4976"},"modified":"2016-09-03T10:55:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T15:55:35","slug":"obscure-phrase-of-the-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/09\/03\/obscure-phrase-of-the-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Obscure Phrase of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>protophobic X boson<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They found that, to be consistent with everything we have seen in experiments designed to characterise the known forces of nature, [this hypothetical dark photon]\u00a0must interact not with protons and electrons, as a conventional photon does, but with the neutrons inside the beryllium nuclei. This is a property beyond the scope of physics as we know it, which might explain how the particle slipped by unseen in previous dark matter searches. Feng\u2019s team call the interloper a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1604.07411\">protophobic X boson<\/a>\u201c. [<em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a027 August 2016, paywall]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Possibly seen while firing protons at a thin sheaf of\u00a0lithium-7 in order to make unstable beryllium-8, which then decayed with unexpected results. Only\u00a0neutrons, huh? This will be interesting if it&#8217;s confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>protophobic X boson: They found that, to be consistent with everything we have seen in experiments designed to characterise the known forces of nature, [this hypothetical dark photon]\u00a0must interact not with protons and electrons, as a conventional photon does, but with the neutrons inside the beryllium nuclei. This is a \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/09\/03\/obscure-phrase-of-the-day-2\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4991,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976\/revisions\/4991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}