  The Electron, Proton and Alpha Monitor, EPAM, located at the L1 Position
approximately 1-million miles from the earth in the direction of the sun, was
designed to detect fluctuations in solar output through counting the numbers of
various particles hitting the detector. The EPAM detector is part of an early
warning system that can alert the earth to coronal mass ejection events that
can damage our electronic grids and satellite equipment. EPAM gives a real-time
estimate of changes in the local solar magnetic field directed towards the
earth, recorded in the fluctuations of solar particles being ejected. This
paper presents an analysis of fluctuations in data taken by the Geological
Survey of Israel, GSI, compared to the changes in detected numbers of protons
as seen by EPAM. Surprisingly, the GSI and EPAM detectors show an unexpected
correlation between the variation in count rate detected by the GSI detectors
and an increased numbers of protons seen at EPAM; well above statistical
significance of 5-sigma, indicating a non-random connection between the data
sets. The statistically significant overlap between data taken by these two
detectors, subject to very different conditions, may hint at a Primakoff
mechanism whereby exotic particles, e.g. galactic Dark Matter, couple through
magnetic fields to both photons and even nuclei. This work builds on an earlier
paper on the observations of Radon decay and their implications for particle
physics.
