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Large bulk matter search for fractional charge particles

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We have carried out the largest search for stable particles with fractional electric charge, based on an oil drop method that incorporates a horizontal electric field and upward air flow. No evidence for such particles was found, giving a 95% C.L. upper limit of 1.15×10221.15\times 10^{-22} particles per nucleon on the abundance of fractional charge particles in silicone oil for 0.18eQresidual0.82e0.18 e \le |Q_{residual}| \le 0.82 e.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0209060,
  title  = {Large bulk matter search for fractional charge particles},
  author = {Irwin Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0209060},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Poster presentation at the XXII Physics in Collisions Conference (PIC02), Stanford, Ca, USA, June 2002, 3 pages, LaTeX, 3 eps figures. PSN THAP08

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