A STUDY OF ELECTRON-MUON PAIR PRODUCTION IN 450 GEV C PBE COLLISIONS/

Authors
AKESSON T ALMEHED S ANGELIS ALS ANTOS J ATHERTON H AUBRY P BARTELS HW BEAUDOIN G BEAULIEU JM BEKER H BENARY O BETTONI D BISI V BLEVIS I BOGGILD H CLELAND W CLEMEN M COLLICK B CORRIVEAU F DAGAN S DEDERICHS K DEPOMMIER P DIGIACOMO N DILIBERTO S DODD JR DOLGOSHEIN B DREES A EIDELMAN S ENYO H ERLANDSSON B ESTEN MJ FABJAN CW FISCHER P GAIDOT A GIBRATDEBU F GIUBELLINO P GLASSEL P GOERLACH U GOLUBKOV Y HAGLUND R HAMEL LA VANHECKE H HEDBERG V HEIFETZ R HOLSCHER A JACAK B JARLSKOG G JOHANNSON S KRANER H KROH V LAMARCHE F LEROY C LISSAUER D LONDON G LORSTAD B LOUNIS A MARTELLI F MARZARICHIESA A MASERA M MAZZONI MA MAZZUCATO E MCCUBBIN ML MCCUBBIN NA MCGAUGHEY P MEDDI F MJORNMARK U MUCIACCIA MT MURAVIEV S MURRAY M NEUBERT M NEVSKI P NILSSON S OLSEN L OREN Y PANSART JP PARK YM PFEIFFER A PIUZ F POLYCHRONAKOS V POMIANOWSKI P POULARD G PRICE M RAHM D RAMELLO L RICCATI L ROMANO G ROSA G SANDOR L SCHUKRAFT J SEKIMOTO M SEMAN M SHIKONIAN A SHMELEVA A SIDOROV V SIMONE S SIROIS Y SLETTEN H SMIRNOV S SONDHEIM W SPECHT HJ STERN E STUMER I SUMAROKOV A SUNIER JW TCHERNIATIN V THOMPSON J TIKHOMIROV V VALINE CM VANYASHIN A VASSEUR G VEENHOF RJ WIGMANS R WILLIS WJ YEPES P
Citation
T. Akesson et al., A STUDY OF ELECTRON-MUON PAIR PRODUCTION IN 450 GEV C PBE COLLISIONS/, Zeitschrift fur Physik. C, Particles and fields, 72(3), 1996, pp. 429-436
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Particles & Fields
Journal title
Zeitschrift fur Physik. C, Particles and fields → ACNP
ISSN journal
01709739
Volume
72
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
429 - 436
Database
ISI
SICI code
0170-9739(1996)72:3<429:ASOEPP>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
We report on the production of e(+/-)mu(-/+) pairs in 450 GeV/c pBe co llisions at the CERN SPS. The e mu signal, which has average missing e nergy of 21 GeV, is shown to be consistent with expectations from char m decay, and implies a sigma x B for <c(c)over bar> production in p-nu cleon collisions of 0.63 +/- 0.35 mu b. Alternatively, using an estima te of charm production from other experiments, the data imply a 95% co nfidence level upper limit of 1.16 mu b on any new physics process whi ch produces e(+/-)mu(-/+).