Talk:X17 particle

Created talk-page
Created the talk-page for the "X17 particle" article - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 02:03, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Protophobic?
Is it “protophobic” or “photophobic”? 72.66.58.236 (talk) 08:12, 23 November 2019 (UTC) [added ip s/ Drbogdan (talk) 13:55, 23 November 2019 (UTC)]
 * Thank you for your question - seems at least four references   note "protophobic X boson" - apparently, "protophobic" refers to "ignoring protons" - hope this helps - iac - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 13:55, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
 * And yet other sources say They referred to this unseen fifth force in action as a "photophobic force," meaning that it was as though the particles were "afraid of light." It is CNN though, so the writer could have made this thing up based on their own misunderstanding/mishearing of a term. Or maybe they really did say photophobic. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 14:28, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
 * yes - agreed - the CNN News source may have misunderstood the term - esp since the Physical Review Letters source (likely a better source for such a physics-related phrase) seems to say otherwise (ie, in the ref title - "Protophobic Fifth Force Interpretation of the Observed Anomaly in 8Be Nuclear Transitions") - iac - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 14:43, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Properties box
Where did you get these numbers from? If the particle decays to electron+positron it can't have electric charge, B-L must be zero and more. And I don't think we should add quantum numbers of wild speculations (X) to the infobox of an equally hypothetical particle. --mfb (talk) 14:38, 10 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Admittedly, these values were copied from the infobox at X boson without due diligence. Feel free to delete any values that you find dubious, or add a tag.Hadron137 (talk) 16:45, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
 * They are completely different things that just happen to share the letter in their name. --mfb (talk) 02:17, 11 December 2019 (UTC)