P. Abreu et al., A STUDY OF THE REACTION E(-)-]MU(+)MU(-)GAMMA(ISR) AT LEP AND SEARCH FOR NEW PHYSICS AT ANNIHILATION ENERGIES NEAR 80 GEV()E(), Zeitschrift fur Physik. C, Particles and fields, 75(4), 1997, pp. 581-592
A study of the channel e(+)e(-) --> mu(+)mu(-)gamma ISR, where gamma I
SR is an initial state radiation photon, is presented using data colle
cted by the DELPHI experiment from 1991 to 1994. The total cross-secti
on at effective annihilation: energies (root s') below the Z(0) peak i
s obtained by using the events with relatively hard initial state radi
ative photon(s) (E gamma > 1 GeV). The differential cross-section as a
function of the muon polar production angle is also determined in ord
er eo extract the forward-backward asymmetries for the reaction e(+)e(
-) --> mu(+)mu(-) at energies root s' between 20 and 87 GeV. The ratio
of the helicity cross-sections sigma LL+sigma RR/sigma RL+sigma LR, w
here the two subscripts stand for the helicities of the incoming e(-)
and outgoing mu(-) respectively, is extracted from the differential cr
oss-sections in order to test the Standard Model and to look for new p
hysics near 80 GeV. No deviations from the Standard Model were found.