Published September 1988
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Journal article
Is there a new pseudoscalar particle
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