Published September 1988 | Version v1
Journal article

Is there a new pseudoscalar particle

Creators

  • 1. Dept. of Physics, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK (USA)

Description

The decay rate of orthopositronium has recently been measured in a new high precision experiment. The result is 10 standard deviations above the theoretical value. It is shown that a light neutral pseudoscalar R may resolve this discrepancy and still be consistent with the anomalous magnetic moments of the electron and the muon. If the mass m/sub R/ ≤ 5.7 keV, then the existence of this proposed particle R is consistent with the beam-dump experiments. The lifetime of R is large, tau ≥ 0.14 s

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Modern Physics Letters B
Journal Volume
3
Journal Issue
11
Series
Mod. Phys. Lett. B.
Journal Page Range
1117-1123
CODEN
MPLBE

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
20043734
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Numerical Data
Descriptors DEI
ELECTRONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; LIFETIME; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MUONS; PSEUDOSCALAR MESONS
Descriptors DEC
BOSONS; DATA; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; HADRONS; INFORMATION; LEPTONS; MESONS; NUMERICAL DATA