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Dark Photons Could Be the Key to Both Dark Matter and the Muon Anomaly.


Dark matter might have its own force, mediated by dark photons similar to the way electromagnetism is mediated by photons. A new study shows that not only are dark photons consistent with experiments in particle physics, they could also solve the g-2 anomaly for muons.

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