Quasiparticle excitations described by the Weyl equation in solids have attracted massive attention in recent years. So far, a wide range of solids have been experimental realized as Weyl semimetals (WSMs). On the other hand, for a compound to display Weyl points it must exhibit either inversion symmetry breaking or time reversal symmetry breaking. Hence, the Weyl fermions are vulnerable to annihilation from structural distortions or lattice imperfections. In the absence of both mirror and inversion symmetry, SrSi2 has been predicted as a robust WSM by recent theoretical works. Here, supported by first-principles calculations, we present systematical angle-resolved photoemission studies of undoped SrSi2 and Ca-doped SrSi2 single crystals. However, our result shows no evidence of the predicted Weyl fermions at the kz = 0 plane, as well as the Fermi arcs on (001) surface. Combined with the first-principles calculations, we suggest that SrSi2 is a topologically trivial semiconductor.
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