https://www.universetoday.com/146615/japanese-dark-matter-detector-is-seeing-a-surprising-excess-of-events/ There are a number of news stories like this coming in the last week. Everyone seems to copying everyone else in the reports... blind leading the blind, as they say.
If you read this in the context of old postings here - there is a bit of synchronicity. This relates to a strong intergalactic signal showing up at around 3.5 keV. Out of sight, out of mind. The present researchers also suggest "tritium contamination" which rises almost to the level of stupidity given the circumstances. Years ago, hundreds of postings here on vortex tried to make some sense out of the news of x-ray spectra and dark matter from dozens of efforts. Our slant was towards dense hydrogen being the culprit. Anyway, in the world of astrophysics, there has been recognized to be a soft x-ray signal associated with emissions from the center of hundreds of galaxies, showing up at around 3.5-3.6 keV and no obvious origin. Dark matter was one possibility, also neutrinos. The LENR crowd has suggested an alternative in dense hydrogen. Curiously with the new work using underground detectors instead of satellites, and pure xenon, the old coincidental similarity in mass-energy, is hardly mentioned. Maybe I missed it or maybe it takes a while to sink in. The fit to the new data is not exact, but close. Specialization is killing science in some ways. If you were looking for an imaginary particle - an axion, then apparently the similarity with anything else from the past is overlooked. Tritium decay is a ridiculous afterthought. Go figure.
