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Is there a new pseudoscalar particle

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6147135
The decay rate of orthopositronium has recently been measured in a new high precision experiment. The result is 10 standard deviations above the theoretical value. It is shown that a light neutral pseudoscalar R may resolve this discrepancy and still be consistent with the anomalous magnetic moments of the electron and the muon. If the mass m/sub R/ less than or equal to 5 keV, then the existence of this proposed particle R is consistent with the beam-dump experiments. The lifetime of R is large, tau greater than or equal to .2s.
Research Organization:
Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater (USA). Dept. of Physics
DOE Contract Number:
FG05-85ER40215
OSTI ID:
6147135
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/40215-T7; ON: DE87013194
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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