MULTIMUON PRODUCTION BY MUONS

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作者
BARGER, V [1 ]
KEUNG, WY [1 ]
PHILLIPS, RJN [1 ]
机构
[1] RUTHERFORD HIGH ENERGY LAB,CHILTON OX11 0QX,OXFORDSHIRE,ENGLAND
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1979年 / 20卷 / 03期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.20.630
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We evaluate and compare the predictions of the principal mechanisms that are expected to produce multimuon signals μN→(nμ)X, namely (i) μμ̄ pair formation by bremsstrahlung and by photon-photon interaction, (ii) cc̄ and bb̄ heavy-quark production by photon-gluon fusion, and (iii) muon production by hadronic final-state interactions. We concentrate attention mainly on trimuons, but include some discussion of opposite-sign and same-sign dimuons, wrong-sign single muons, and diffractive ψ production. © 1979 The American Physical Society.
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页码:630 / 639
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