{"title":"Preliminary results in the search for fractionally charged particles by the magnetic levitation electrometer","authors":"G. Gallinaro, G. Morpurgo","doi":"10.1016/0031-9163(66)91019-5","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The operation of the magnetic levitation electrometer suggested in ref. 1 is described. Measurements on the first five graphite grains (containing altogether ∼ 10<sup>16</sup> nucleons) exclude the presence of quarks in them; a future program of search for terrestrial quarks by this instrument is outlined.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101027,"journal":{"name":"Physics Letters","volume":"23 10","pages":"Pages 609-613"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1966-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0031-9163(66)91019-5","citationCount":"17","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Physics Letters","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0031916366910195","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The operation of the magnetic levitation electrometer suggested in ref. 1 is described. Measurements on the first five graphite grains (containing altogether ∼ 1016 nucleons) exclude the presence of quarks in them; a future program of search for terrestrial quarks by this instrument is outlined.