Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
1996-10-03
Phys.Lett.B394:16-22,1997
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
15 pages, standard LaTeX with 3 included PS figures; Submitted to Physics Letters B
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00002-6
We present new results obtained from a series of follow-up e+e- coincidence measurements in heavy-ion collisions, utilizing an improved experimental set-up at the double-Orange beta-spectrometer of GSI. The collision system U+Ta was reinvestigated in three independent runs at beam energies in the range (6.0-6.4)xA MeV and different target thicknesses, with the objective to reproduce a narrow sum-energy e+e- line at ~635 keV observed previously in this collision system. At improved statistical accuracy, the line could not be found in these new data. For the ''fission'' scenario, an upper limit (1 sigma) on its production probability per collision of 1.3x10^{-8} can be set which has to be compared to the previously reported value of [4.9 +- 0.8 (stat.) +- 1.0 (syst)]x10^{-7}. In the light of the new results, a reanalysis of the old data shows that the continuous part of the spectrum at the line position is significantly higher than previously assumed, thus reducing the production probability of the line by a factor of two and its statistical significance to < 3.4sigma.
Berdermann Eleni
Heine Frank
Heinz Sebastian
Joeres O.
Kienle Paul
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