I think they've discredited that finding, unless I missed some recent reports.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axion
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Sorry, i was under the impression it had been;
''Public release date: 6-Dec-2006
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Contact: Ellen Goldbaum
goldbaum@buffalo.edu
716-645-5000 x1415
University at Buffalo
Long the fixation of physicists worldwide, a tiny particle is found
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- After decades of intensive effort by both experimental and theoretical physicists worldwide, a tiny particle with no charge, a very low mass and a lifetime much shorter than a nanosecond, dubbed the "axion," has now been detected by the University at Buffalo physicist who first suggested its existence in a little-read paper as early as 1974.
The finding caps nearly three decades of research both by Piyare Jain, Ph.D., UB professor emeritus in the Department of Physics and lead investigator on the research, who works independently -- an anomaly in the field -- and by large groups of well-funded physicists who have, for three decades, unsuccessfully sought the recreation and detection of axions in the laboratory, using high-energy particle accelerators.
The paper, available online in the British Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics at
http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0954-3899/34/1/009, will be published in the January 2007 issue. ''
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''So antineutrinos aren't predicted by the SM, they are excluded. It's a pretty active area of research. One guy in my department and his new student, a friend of mine, are researching it.''
I see. Thanks.
''It's just that someone studying QM and whose claiming to research QFT should have come across the properties of the neutrino since it's an essential concept in quantum field theory.''
Well, i haven't studied it with great degree.