Why a Dark Matter Search Also Observed The Rarest Radioactive Decays

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The Xenon1T experiment has made the first direct measurements of a radioactive half-life of Xenon 124, which is 18 Sextillion years - over 1 trillion times older than the universe.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01212-8

Find out more about the Xenon1T experiment here:
http://www.xenon1t.org/

Many isotope data images in this video are taken from periodictable.com

The best diagram of radioactive decays
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Table_isotopes.svg



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