Tachyons revisited-comments on a search for faster-than-light particles
- 1 April 1976
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear Physics
- Vol. 2 (4) , 261-267
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4616/2/4/011
Abstract
An apparently significant result in an experiment to search for tachyons in the interval of time immediately preceding the arrival of air showers of energy greater than 1015 eV has been reported by Clay and Crouch (see Nature, vol.248, p.28 of 1974). Several similar experiments have been completed, all of which have yielded null results. The original data of Clay and Crouch have been re-examined and it is shown that an artifact of the apparatus was contributing to the original, apparently significant, result. An upper limit estimate shows that the number of tachyons is less than the number of hadrons of energy greater than 100 GeV in showers of average size N=6*105 particles.Keywords
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