Search for a 33.9 MeV/c2 neutral particle in pion decay

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作者
Formaggio, JA [1 ]
Zimmerman, ED
Adams, T
Alton, A
Avvakumov, S
de Barbaro, L
de Barbaro, P
Bernstein, RH
Bodek, A
Bolton, T
Brau, J
Buchholz, D
Budd, H
Bugel, L
Case, S
Conrad, JM
Drucker, RB
Fleming, BT
Frey, R
Goldman, J
Goncharov, M
Harris, DA
Johnson, RA
Kim, JH
Koutsoliotas, S
Lamm, MJ
Marsh, W
Mason, D
McFarland, KS
McNulty, C
Naples, D
Nienaber, P
Romosan, A
Sakumoto, WK
Schellman, HM
Shaevitz, MH
Spentzouris, P
Stern, EG
Vakili, M
Vaitaitis, A
Wu, V
Yang, UK
Yu, J
Zeller, GP
机构
[1] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[2] Univ Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA
[3] Fermilab Astrophys Ctr, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[4] Kansas State Univ, Manhattan, KS 66506 USA
[5] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60201 USA
[6] Univ Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 USA
[7] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.4043
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
The E815 (NnTeV) neutrino experiment has performed a search for a 33.9 MeV/c(2) weakly interacting neutral particle produced in pion decay. Such a particle may be responsible for an anomaly in the timing distribution of neutrino interactions in the KARMEN experiment. E815 has searched for this particle's decays in an instrumented decay region; no evidence for this particle was found. The search is sensitive to pion branching ratios as low as 10(-13).
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