Search for fractional charges produced in heavy-ion collisions at 1.9 GeV/nucleon

Michael A. Lindgren; David C. Joyce; Peter C. Abrams; Roger W. Bland; Robert T. Johnson; Tanya D. Knoop; Maureen H. Savage; Marion H. Scholz; Betty A. Young; Christopher L. Hodges; Alan A. Hahn; Gordon L. Shaw; Klaus S. Lackner; Howel G. Pugh; Richard Slansky

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.51.1621

Search for fractional charges produced in heavy-ion collisions at 1.9 GeV/nucleon

Michael A. Lindgren, David C. Joyce, Peter C. Abrams, Roger W. Bland, Robert T. Johnson, Tanya D. Knoop, Maureen H. Savage, Marion H. Scholz, Betty A. Young, Christopher L. Hodges, Alan A. Hahn, Gordon L. Shaw, Klaus S. Lackner, Howel G. Pugh, Richard Slansky

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An experiment was performed to capture fractionally charged particles produced in heavy-ion collisions and to concentrate them in samples suitable for analysis by various techniques. Two of the samples so produced have been searched, with use of an automated version of Millikan's oil-drop apparatus. The beam was Fe56 at 1.9 GeV/nucleon, incident on a lead target. Less than one fractional charge per 1.0×104 Fe-Pb collisions was found to be produced, and, with further assumptions, less than one per 2.0×106 collisions.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1621-1624
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	51
Issue number	18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.51.1621
State	Published - 1983
Externally published	Yes

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Lindgren, M. A., Joyce, D. C., Abrams, P. C., Bland, R. W., Johnson, R. T., Knoop, T. D., Savage, M. H., Scholz, M. H., Young, B. A., Hodges, C. L., Hahn, A. A., Shaw, G. L., Lackner, K. S., Pugh, H. G., & Slansky, R. (1983). Search for fractional charges produced in heavy-ion collisions at 1.9 GeV/nucleon. Physical Review Letters, 51(18), 1621-1624. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.51.1621

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