Search for Shortlived Axions in a Nuclear Isoscalar Transition

De Boer, F.W.N.; Abrahams, K.; Balanda, A.; Bokemeyer, H.; Van Dantzig, R.; Jansen, J.F.W.; Kotlinski, B.; De Voigt, M.J.A.; Van Klinken, J.

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(86)90123-1

Search for Shortlived Axions in a Nuclear Isoscalar Transition

1986

5 pages

Part of WEAK AND ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS IN NUCLEI. PROCEEDINGS, INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, HEIDELBERG, F.R. GERMANY, JULY 1-5, 1986

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Phys.Lett.B 180 (1986) 4-8

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International Symposium on Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions in Nuclei

Published: 1986

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10.1016/0370-2693(86)90123-1

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Axions, if existing, can cause a strong signal of positron-electron pairs in isoscalar M1 transitions in competition with gamma-ray emission. We searched for such a signal in the 3.59 MeV transition in 10 B with a fourfold Mini-Orange spectrometer. No axion events were found within two percent of the prediction for the standard axion- to γ -ray branching ratio.

talk
p light nucleus: nuclear reaction
boron: excited state
postulated particle: axion
search for: axion
axion: leptonic decay
electron: pair production
lifetime
transition: isoscalar
experimental results

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