The dark matter particle detected by LUX-ZEPLIN detector is identifiable as dark pion of M89 hadron physics predicted by TGD!

I just learned of a direct detection of dark matter. The news was published already towards the end of 2025 (see this. I glue part of the news here.

The LUX-ZEPLIN detector (see this) at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, located 1,500 meters beneath the former Homestake Gold Mine, recorded 8 candidate dark matter interaction events over 1,000 days of operation that carry statistical certainty of 5.2 sigma crossing the discovery threshold physicists require for particle physics announcements. The detector uses 10 tonnes of ultra-pure liquid xenon cooled to minus 108 degrees Celsius, surrounded by water tanks shielding against cosmic rays that would overwhelm the faint dark matter signal at shallower depths.

Dark matter particles theorized as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles with masses between 10 and 1,000 times the proton mass produce tiny flashes of scintillation light and ionization when they collide with xenon nuclei, distinguishable from radioactive background through their characteristic dual-signal fingerprint.

The detected events carry particle masses consistent with a 65 proton-mass dark matter candidate, within the theoretical range predicted by supersymmetric extensions of the standard model. Independent verification is already underway at the PandaX-4T detector in China and the XENONnT detector in Italy’s Gran Sasso Laboratory, with results expected within six months.

What has TGD to say about the claimed 5 sigma discovery?

1. One of the most dramatic predictions of TGD is a scale hierarchy of standard model physics labelled by Mersenne primes and their Gaussian counterparts. This hierarchy would correspond to the hierarchy of color partial waves associated with the Dirac equation in H= M⁴× CP₂ in which space-times are 4-surfaces obeying a slightly non-deterministic holography.

The mass scales of leptons and hadrons of a given standard model physics would be proportional to the inverse of the square root of the Mersenne or Gaussian Mersenne characterizing the scaled copy (for the most recent articles about p-adic thermodynamics, replacing Higgs mechanism see this and this). For instance, for electron one would correspond to Mersenne prime M₁₂₇ =2¹²⁷-1.

M₈₉ hadrons would be created as a phase of ordinary matter with scaled up valued of effective Planck constant guaranteeing that at quantum criticality for the phase transition the Compton lengths of M₈₉ hadrons, scaled by factor h_eff/h are same as for ordinary hadrons. This requires that the ratio of h_eff/h equals to the ratio p-adic length scales associated with M₁₀₇ and M₈₉ equal to 2^(107-89)/2= 2⁹=512. 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.