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Investigations on Nucleon Stability in Europe

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Unification of the Fundamental Particle Interactions

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This communication will be mainly devoted to the description of the so called NUSEX (Nucleon Stability Experiment) project (1) which, at present, has been funded and is in the preparation stage The NUSEX apparatus will be installed in the Mont Blanc Tunnel and the data taking is expected to start in the middle of 1981. Finally, some considerations on possible developments of this kind of experiment in Europe will be reported.

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  1. Istituto di Fisica dell’Università and Sezione INFN, Via Celoria 16, 20133, Milano, Italy

    E. Bellotti

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  1. INFN, Frascati, Italy

    Sergio Ferrara

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

    Sergio Ferrara  & John Ellis  & 

  3. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, F-75231, Paris, France

    Sergio Ferrara

  4. State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, 11794, USA

    Peter van Nieuwenhuizen

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Bellotti, E. (1980). Investigations on Nucleon Stability in Europe. In: Ferrara, S., Ellis, J., van Nieuwenhuizen, P. (eds) Unification of the Fundamental Particle Interactions. Ettore Majorana International Science Series, vol 7. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3171-1_37

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