Detection of weak neutral current using fission nu-bar/sub e/ on deuterons
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[en] The weak-neutral-current reaction upsilon-bar/sub e/ + d → n + p + upsilon-bar/sub e/ has been observed concurrently with the charged-current process upsilon-bar/sub e/ + d → n + n + e+ using an instrumented D2O target exposed to an upsilon-bar/sub e/ flux of 2.5 x 1013 cm-2sec-1. The measured neutral-current cross section, (3.8 +- 0.9) x 10-45 cm2/upsilon-bar/sub e/, is consistent with the Weinberg-Salam model, dependent in this case only on the axial-vector contribution. The charged-current reaction cross section is (1.5 +- 0.4) x 10-45 cm2/upsilon-bar/sub e/, in fair agreement with expectation
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Physical Review Letters; ISSN 0031-9007; ; v. 43(2); p. 96-99
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ALGEBRAIC CURRENTS, ANTILEPTONS, ANTIMATTER, ANTINEUTRINOS, ANTIPARTICLES, BARYONS, CATIONS, CHARGED PARTICLES, CURRENTS, ELECTRON NEUTRINOS, ELEMENTARY PARTICLES, FERMIONS, FIELD THEORIES, HADRONS, HYDROGEN IONS, HYDROGEN IONS 1 PLUS, INTERACTIONS, IONS, LEPTON REACTIONS, LEPTONS, MASSLESS PARTICLES, MATHEMATICAL MODELS, MATTER, MEASURING INSTRUMENTS, NEUTRAL CURRENTS, NEUTRINOS, NUCLEAR REACTIONS, NUCLEONS, PARTICLE INTERACTIONS, PARTICLE MODELS, QUANTUM FIELD THEORY, RADIATION DETECTORS, TARGETS, UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
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