Abstract
Scale invariance is tested in ratios of muon scattering cross sections from an iron target at pairs of values ranging to 40 and differing by a factor of . The apparatus was changed with incident energy to preserve acceptance and resolution in scaled variables. The scale-noninvariant departure from unity of these ratios displays a statistically significant dependence. The effect exceeds the systematic uncertainty by a factor of 1.7.
- Received 16 June 1975
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.35.898
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