Abstract
More than 100 000 cosmic-ray tracks from extensive air showers were scanned in pictures of cloud chambers after the manner of McCusker. In addition, positive- and negative-ion columns were separated by an electric field, and individual droplets were counted; histograms of numbers of tracks versus droplet density are shown. Artificially produced low-droplet-count tracks have been used to measure the scanning efficiency for quarklike tracks. To date the upper limit for the quark flux is 3 × , and the limit for particles is 3 × .
- Received 3 May 1971
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.27.51
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