Search for Electromagnetic Production of Fractionally Charged Particles at NAL (open access)

Search for Electromagnetic Production of Fractionally Charged Particles at NAL

One of the most important investigations to be conducted during the early operation of NAL is the search for quarks. Several experiments have been proposed which will investigate quark production via the strong interaction. As we discuss below, however, there are serious arguments to suggest that the mass limits obtained will not be significantly higher than the current limits of 4 to 5 GeV. To circumvent these objections we propose a simple experiment based on e1ectromagnetic production of quarks. It would run inside the main ring with photons produced in the rotating c-o target. No presently approved quark experiment is sensitive to such production without modification of its proposed set-up.
Date: April 13, 1972
Creator: McFarland, A.; Osuch, J.; Pilcher, J.; Rubbia, C.; Sulak, L.; Verhey, L. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library