Search for high mass particles produced in association with prompt muons

Thesis/Dissertation · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:5977695

Spelbring, D R

This dissertation describes an experimental search for narrow high mass states produced in association with prompt muons. Such states are predicted by the charmed particle theory. The experiment was situated in the M-3 neutral beam line at Fermilab. A large aperture forward spectrometer with magnetistrictive readout spark chambers was used to examine multihadron final states. The system was triggered by a muon spectrometer arm with muon momentum acceptance of 6 less than or equal to p less than or equal to 39 Gev/c. The intent of the experiment was to trigger on a muon from the decay of one charmed particle and look for the hadronic decay of the associatively produced charmed particle. A sample of 4.5 x 10/sup 5/ triggers was collected. A prompt muon signal was extracted and k..pi.. mass distributions were obtained from which charm cross section upper limits were extracted.

• Research Organization: Northwestern Univ., Chicago, IL (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5977695
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
CHARM PARTICLES
DECAY
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
FERMIONS
HADRONS
LEPTONS
MASS
MUONS
PARTICLE DECAY
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
POSTULATED PARTICLES