Search for Neutral, Penetrating, Metastable Particles Produced in the SLAC Beam Dump

摘要

A search was made for neutral objects which might be produced by 20 GeV electrons incident on the SLAC beam dump, penetrate the downstream natural shielding, and decay upstream of an electromagnetic shower calorimeter. With about 30 coulombs of electrons dumped, no candidate events were found above an energy of approx. 2 GeV. Preliminary analysis implies the 95% confidence level limit on the product of mass and lifetime of light axion-like bosons decaying primarily into two photons to be greater than 0.8 keV-sec. Preliminary limits on photino parameters are also given. (ERA citation 09:031982)