SEARCH FOR PAIR PRODUCED STABLE SINGLY CHARGED HEAVY-PARTICLES IN Z0 DECAYS

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AKRAWY, MZ
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[1] Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, London
[2] Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv
[3] Department of Physics, Schuster Laboratory, The University, Manchester
[4] Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
[5] Enrico Fermi Institute, Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago
[6] Department of Physics, Carleton University, Colonel By Drive, Ottawa
[7] Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot
[8] Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire, Université de Montréal, Montreal
[9] Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park
[10] Fakultät für Physik, Albert Ludwigs Universität
[11] CERN, European Organisation for Particle Physics
[12] Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg
[13] Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bonn
[14] School of Physics and Space Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham
[15] Dipartimento di Fisica dell' Università di Bologna, INFN
[16] Brunel University, Uxbridge
[17] University College London, London
[18] Birkbeck College, London
[19] Department of Physics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
[20] DPhPE, CEN Saclay
[21] Department of Physics, University of California, Riverside
[22] National Research Council of Canada, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Ottawa
[23] Nuclear Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot
[24] International Center for Elementary Particle Physics, Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo
[25] Kobe University, Kobe
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10.1016/0370-2693(90)90875-7
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P1 [天文学];
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摘要
A direct search for the exclusive pair production of stable singly charged heavy (SCH) particles in Z0 decays at the LEP e+ e- collider is presented. In a scan around the Z0 resonance of 0.4 pb-1 integrated luminosity, no evidence is seen for the production of slow-moving charged particles as measured by their time-of-flight. We set an upper limit of 1 X 10(-3) on the Z0 branching ratio into a pair of SCH fermions in the mass range 29-40 GeV/c2, corresponding to a 3 MeV upper limit on such a contribution to the total width of the Z0. We exclude a fourth generation SCH lepton in the mass range 18.5-42.8 GeV/c2. We also exclude a stable supersymmetric partner of the right-handed lepton, l approximately R, in the mass range 21.5-38.8 GeV/c2. All limits are at 95% confidence level.
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