An experimental limit on the coupling of a light neutral pseudoscalar particle to hadrons

Autor: Indumathi, D, Baba, C V K, Roy, A, Vaidya, S C
Zdroj: Pramana; October 1987, Vol. 29 Issue: 4 p369-378, 10p
Abstrakt: Detailed results of an experiment, looking for a short-lived neutral particle decaying by ane+e−pair in the decay of the 3.68 MeV (3/2) state in13C, whose decay is predominantly M1, are presented. An upper limit of 7 × 10−5has been placed on the branching ratio for decay through such a particle with a mass in the range 1.7 to 1.9 MeV/c2. This leads to an upper limit of 10−6for the coupling of such a particle to nucleons. Such a limit rules out the explanation of thee+ande−peaks recently observed in heavy ion collisions, as due to the decay of a neutral particle.
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