Search for neutral metastable penetrating particles produced in the SLAC beam dump

1 December 1988

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D

Vol. 38 (11) , 3375-3386
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.38.3375

Abstract

A search was made for neutral objects which might be produced by 20-GeV electrons incident on the SLAC beam dump, penetrate the downstream natural shielding, and decay upstream of an electromagnetic shower calorimeter. With about 30 C of electrons dumped, no candidate events were found above an energy of ∼2 GeV. The 95%-confidence-level limit on the product of mass and lifetime of light axionlike bosons decaying primarily into two photons is determined to be greater than 1.4 keV sec. Limits on photino parameters are also given.

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