Has LUX-ZEPLIN found a scaled up variant of electron with mass of 256 GeV behaving like dark matter?

LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota reports 3 sigma evidence for a dark matter particle candidate at mass above 200 GeV, WIMP as it is called. See the popular article, the Nature commentary and the research article.

TGD predicts a hierarchy of hadron physics labelled by ordinary Mersenne primes M_k= 2^k/-1 and their Gaussian counterparts. k=107 corresponds to ordinary hadron physics and k=89 to hadron physics with mass scales of hadrons which are expected to be by factor 512 higher. They should be reachable at LHC and there exist pieces of evidence for resonances identifiable as M₈₉ mesons (see for instance this, this and this).

These particles are predicted to be dark in the sense that the value of the effective Planck constant h_eff is larger than the value of ordinary Planck constant so that they do not appear in the same vertices as ordinary particles. M₈₉ hadrons would be created as their dark variants having the same Compton length as their M₁₀₇ counterparts. The strange properties of quark gluon plasma would reflect the quantum criticality for a transitions from M₁₀₇ hadron physics to M₈₉ hadron physics (see this and this).

This hierarchy applies also to leptons. The M₈₉ counterpart of electron would have mass 2^(127-89)/2 m_e= 256 GeV. If has h_eff/h equal to the ratio (M₁₂₇ /M₈₉)^1/2= 2¹⁹, it would behave like a dark matter particle and have the same Compton length as ordinary electron: this would be a prerequisite for quantum criticality. Note that also the existence of M₁₀₇ dark electron with mass of 500 MeV and M_G,113 dark electron with mass of 64 MeV is suggested.

See the article Comparing the S-matrix descriptions of fundamental interactions provided by standard model and TGD or the chapter with the same title.

For a summary of earlier postings see Latest progress in TGD.

For the lists of articles (most of them published in journals founded by Huping Hu) and books about TGD see this.