For almost 30 years, the hunt has been on for a ghostly particle proposed to plug a gap in the standard model of particle physics. The detection of a tiny optical effect might be the first positive sighting.
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Lamoreaux, S. The first axion?. Nature 441, 31–32 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/441031a
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