Published December 29, 1983 | Version v1
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A search for free quarks in deep inelastic muon scattering

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A search was made at the CERN SPS for long-lived fractionally charged particles produced in deep inelastic muon interactions on a Be target using the existing muon beam line as a spectrometer. No such particles were found, leading to upper limits for the production cross section of the order of 10-36 cm2 for 200 GeV incident muon momentum and quark masses below 9 GeV for the 2/3 charge and 15 GeV for 1/3 charge. (orig.)

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Journal Title
Phys. Lett., B
Journal Volume
133
Journal Issue
6
Series
CODEN: PYLBA.;Phys. Lett., B.
Journal Page Range
461-466
ISSN
0370-2693

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