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Production of High-Mass Muon Pairs in Proton-Nucleus Collisions at 400 GeV

D. C. Hom, Leon M. Lederman, H. P. Paar, H. D. Snyder, J. M. Weiss, J. K. Yoh, J. A. Appel, Bruce Brown, C. Brown, W. R. Innes,

Physical Review Letters · 1976 · 80 citations · 12 references

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Abstract

We report results on the production of muon pairs in the mass range 2.5 to 20 GeV in 400-GeV proton-nucleus collisions. A total of 159 events are observed in the mass range 5.5 to 11 GeV with a cross section which is in agreement with the previous observation of a high-mass dielectron continuum signal in this interval. Details on the production dynamics and comparisons with parton-model predictions are presented. Within limitations of resolution and continuum uncertainty, the dimuon mass spectrum provides no evidence for fine structure above 5 GeV.

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