Wednesday, December 6, 2006

Gurmukh Singh, Piyare Jain, and axions

As RWA has pointed out, Piyare Jain and Gurmukh Singh claim
in the paper linked above to be published in Journal of Physics G in January 2007. See their self-promotion at the University at Buffalo: thanks to James O'Leary for his real insider corrections. A nuclear physics experiment with lead is claimed to have observed many axions decaying into electron-positron pairs. The axion lifetime should be a fraction of picosecond and the mass is around 7 MeV and 19 MeV (two different signals).

The only thing I can say is that it looks strange to me. The previous articles about axions were focusing on