1. Experimental Search for a Heavy Electron
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Henry W. Kendall, P. N. Kirk, G. C. Hartmann, J.E. Elias, Jerome I. Friedman, J.K. de Pagter, C.D. Boley, L.P. Van Speybroeck, and M.R. Sogard
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Nuclear physics ,Coupling constant ,Physics ,Range (particle radiation) ,Hydrogen ,chemistry ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Particle ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Electron ,Atomic physics ,Inelastic scattering ,Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
A search for a heavy electron of the type considered by Low and Blackmon has been made by studying the inelastic scattering of 5 BeV electrons from hydrogen. The search was made over a range of values of the mass of the heavy electron from 100 to 1300 MeV. No evidence for such a particle was observed. Upper limits on the production cross sections were determined and employed to deduce limits on the values of the electron-photon-heavy electron coupling constant in Low and Blackmon's theory.
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- 1968
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