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Search for new particles decaying into electron pairs of mass below 100 MeV/c2

P L Jain and G Singh

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We report results on 1220 electron pairs produced from a 207Pb beam at 160 A GeV in nuclear emulsion with invariant mass Q ranging between 1 and 100 MeV and lifetime τ between 10−15 s and 10−12 s. These electron pairs were produced at a distance of more than 50 µm from the primary interactions—this distance eliminates contamination due to Dalitz pairs. After subtracting the background pairs from the materialization of photons and also due to the decay of π0 → 2γ from the data, they exhibit enhancement at low mass Q = 6–20 MeV with narrow peaks at 7 ± 1 MeV, 19 ± 1 MeV and τ ≤ 10−13 s.


PACS

25.75.Dw Particle and resonance production

13.40.Hq Electromagnetic decays

14.40.Aq pi, K, and eta mesons

27.80.+w 190(less-than-or-equal-to)A(less-than-or-equal-to)219

14.60.Cd Electrons (including positrons)

13.20.Cz Decays of pi mesons

Subjects

Nuclear physics

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 1 (January 2007)

Received 13 July 2006

Published 28 November 2006



  1. Search for new particles decaying into electron pairs of mass below 100 MeV/c2

    P L Jain and G Singh 2007 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 34 129

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