Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 1950–1953 (1996)Improved Upper Limit on Muonium to Antimuonium ConversionReceived 13 June 1996; published in the issue dated 2 September 1996 A new experiment has been set up at the Paul Scherrer Institut to search for muonium to antimuonium conversion. No event was found to fulfil the requested signature which consists of the coincident detection of both constituents of the antiatom in its decay. Assuming an effective (V-A)×(V-A) type interaction an improved upper limit is established for the conversion probability of PMM̅ ≤8×10-9 (90% C.L.), which is almost 2 orders of magnitude lower compared to previous results and provides a sensitive test for theoretical extensions of the standard model. © 1996 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.1950
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.1950
PACS:
11.30.Fs, 11.30.Hv, 13.10.+q, 36.10.Dr
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