SEARCH FOR AN ANOMALOUSLY HEAVY ISOTOPE OF OXYGEN

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MIDDLETON, R
ZURMUHLE, RW
KLEIN, J
KOLLARITS, RV
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.43.429
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O4 [物理学];
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A search has been made for an anomalously heavy isotope of oxygen spanning the mass range 20 to 54 amu with use of a tandem accelerator as an ultrasensitive mass spectrometer. An upper limit of heavy hadron to nucleon ratios was established at 10-16 over the entire mass region and over a large portion of it at 10-18. This ratio is considerably lower than the predictions of cosmological models, namely ∼10-10 to 10-11. © 1979 The American Physical Society.
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