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Title: Study of rare processes induced by 209-Gev muons

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6228802· OSTI ID:6228802

Analysis of dimuon final states from 1.4 x 10/sup 11/ positive and 2.9 x 10/sup 10/ negative 209-Gev muons in a magnetized iron calorimeter has set a lower limit of 9 Gev/c/sup 2/ on the mass of a heavy neutral muon (M/sup 0/), and a 90%-confidence level upper limit of sigma(..mu..N..-->..b anti bX)B(b anti b..--> mu..X)<2.9 x 10/sup -36/ cm/sup 2/ for the production of bottom hadrons by muons. The dimuon mass spectrum from 102,678 trimuon final states places a 90%-confidence level upper limit for the muoproduction of upsilon states: sigma(..mu..N..--> mu.. UPSILON X)B(UPSILON..--> mu../sup +/..mu../sup -/)<22 x 10/sup -39/ cm/sup 2/. In addition, analysis of 71 rare multimuon events, including 4- and 5-muon final states, is presented.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
6228802
Report Number(s):
LBL-12789; ON: DE81025000; TRN: 81-011696
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Thesis
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English