Production of Massive Muon Pairs by 300-GeV and 400-GeV Protons

Kluberg, L. ; Piroue, P.A. ; Sumner, Richard L. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 37 (1976) 1451, 1976.
Inspire Record 4051 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.1201

We have observed muon pairs with effective masses in the range 7<~Mμμ<~11 GeV/c2 produced by 300- and 400-GeV protons incident on a Cu target at Fermilab. The production cross section per nucleon, dσdMμμ, for 400-GeV incident protons is found to fall from 1 × 10−36 cm2/(GeV/c2) at Mμμ=7.7 GeV/c2 to 2.7 × 10−38 cm2/(GeV/c2) at Mμμ=11.2 GeV/c2. We find that a significant fraction of the observed direct single muons come from high-mass dimuons.

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