Search for lightly ionizing particles with the MACRO detector

A search for lightly ionizing particles has been performed with the MACRO detector. This search was sensitive to particles with charges between (1/5) e and close to the charge of an electron, with {beta} between approximately 0.25 and 1.0. Unlike previous searches both single track events and tracks...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review. D, Particles and fields Particles and fields, 2000-09, Vol.62 (5), Article 052003
Hauptverfasser: Ambrosio, M., Antolini, R., Auriemma, G., Bakari, D., Baldini, A., Barbarino, G. C., Barish, B. C., Battistoni, G., Bellotti, R., Bemporad, C., Bernardini, P., Bilokon, H., Bisi, V., Bloise, C., Bower, C., Brigida, M., Bussino, S., Cafagna, F., Calicchio, M., Campana, D., Carboni, M., Cecchini, S., Cei, F., Chiarella, V., Choudhary, B. C., Coutu, S., De Cataldo, G., Dekhissi, H., De Marzo, C., De Mitri, I., Derkaoui, J., De Vincenzi, M., Di Credico, A., Erriquez, O., Favuzzi, C., Forti, C., Fusco, P., Giacomelli, G., Giannini, G., Giglietto, N., Giorgini, M., Grassi, M., Gray, L., Grillo, A., Guarino, F., Gustavino, C., Habig, A., Hanson, K., Heinz, R., Iarocci, E., Katsavounidis, E., Katsavounidis, I., Kearns, E., Kim, H., Kyriazopoulou, S., Lamanna, E., Lane, C., Levin, D. S., Lipari, P., Longley, N. P., Longo, M. J., Loparco, F., Maaroufi, F., Mancarella, G., Mandrioli, G., Margiotta, A., Marini, A., Martello, D., Marzari-Chiesa, A., Mazziotta, M. N., Michael, D. G., Mikheyev, S., Miller, L., Monacelli, P., Montaruli, T., Monteno, M., Mufson, S., Musser, J., Nicolò, D., Nolty, R., Orth, C., Okada, C., Osteria, G., Ouchrif, M., Palamara, O., Patera, V., Patrizii, L., Pazzi, R., Peck, C. W., Perrone, L., Petrera, S., Pistilli, P., Popa, V., Rainò, A., Reynoldson, J., Ronga, F., Satriano, C., Satta, L., Scapparone, E., Scholberg, K.
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Zusammenfassung:A search for lightly ionizing particles has been performed with the MACRO detector. This search was sensitive to particles with charges between (1/5) e and close to the charge of an electron, with {beta} between approximately 0.25 and 1.0. Unlike previous searches both single track events and tracks buried within high multiplicity muon showers were examined. In a period of approximately one year no candidates were observed. Assuming an isotropic flux, for the single track sample this corresponds to a 90% C.L. upper flux limit {phi}{
ISSN:0556-2821
1089-4918
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.62.052003