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Experimental limits on the production of fractionally charged particles in proton-nucleus and neutrino-nucleus collisions

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Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields

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A search for fractionally chargedQ=1/3 (2/3) particles of different properties of interaction produced in (anti)neutrino-nucleus and in protonnucleus collisions was performed using the scintillator system of the CHARM neutrino detector at the CERN SPS. No events of the cases considered were found. In (anti)neutrino beams production was found to be less than a few times 10−5 per interaction of a beam particle. In a proton beam an upper limit on the production cross section of ∼10−40 cm2 was obtained.

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  1. M. Jonker

    Present address: SLAC, Stanford, USA

  2. G. Barbiellini & V. Valente

    Present address: LN Frascati, INFN, Italy

  3. A. Baroncelli, R. Biancastelli, C. Bosio & L. Tortora

    Present address: INFN Sezione Sanità and Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

  4. B. Borgia, M. Diemoz, U. Dore, F. Ferroni, E. Longo, L. Luminari, P. Monacelli & F. de Notaristefani

    Present address: Istituto di Fisica, University of Roma and INFN Sezione di Roma, Rome, Italy

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  1. NIKHEF, NL-1009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    F. Bergsma, J. Dorenbosch, M. Jonker & C. Nieuwenhuis

  2. CERN, CH-1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland

    J. V. Allaby, U. Amaldi, G. Barbiellini, L. Barone, A. Capone, W. Flegel, L. Lanceri, M. Metcalf, J. Panman, R. Plunkett, C. Santoni & K. Winter

  3. II. Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität, D-2000, Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany

    I. Abt, J. Aspiazu, F. W. Büsser, H. Daumann, P. D. Gall, T. Hebbeker, F. Niebergall, P. Schütt & P. Stähelin

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    A. Baroncelli, R. Biancastelli, B. Borgia, C. Bosio, M. Diemoz, U. Dore, F. Ferroni, E. Longo, L. Luminari, P. Monacelli, F. de Notaristefani, L. Tortora & V. Valente

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CHARM Collaboration., Bergsma, F., Dorenbosch, J. et al. Experimental limits on the production of fractionally charged particles in proton-nucleus and neutrino-nucleus collisions. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 24, 217–218 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01410361

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