2017/06/13 by Kopylov, Anatoly, Orekhov, Igor, Petukhov, Valery
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1706.03933
New upper limit on a mixing parameter for hidden photons with a mass from 5 eV till 10 keV has been obtained from the results of measurements during 78 days in two configurations R1 and R2 of a multicathode counter. For a region of a maximal sensitivity from 10 eV till 30 eV the upper limit obtained is less than 4 x 10-11. The measurements have been performed at three temperatures: 26C, 31C and 36C. A positive effect for the spontaneous emission of single electrons has been obtained at the level of more than 7σ. A falling tendency of a temperature dependence of the spontaneous emission rate indicates that the effect of thermal emission from a copper cathode can be neglected.