Radiative and hadronic production of trimuons in neutrino collisions

Journal Article · Sun Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1978 · Phys. Rev., D; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.18.2308· OSTI ID:6614993

Barger, V; Gottschalk, T; Phillips, R J.N.

We calculate characteristics of trimuon events in neutrino scattering, arising from conventional single-muon production accompanied by a dimuon pair from three sources: (i) radiation from the primary lepton-quark interaction, (ii) direct pair production from the subsequent hadronic interactions, deduced empirically from observed prompt muon-pair production in hadron-hadron collisions, and (iii) charm-pair production from the primary lepton-quark interaction. The first two components give a good representation of most of the ..nu..N ..-->.. ..mu../sup -/..mu../sup -/..mu../sup +/X data (the third component is small). A few trimuon events remain unexplained at muon-pair masses m (..mu../sup +/..mu../sup -/) > 1 GeV and at low hadronic energies. Same-sign dimuon and antineutrino trimuon predictions are also presented.

• Research Organization: Physics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
• OSTI ID: 6614993
• Journal Information: Phys. Rev., D; (United States), Journal Name: Phys. Rev., D; (United States) Vol. 18:7; ISSN PRVDA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
CHARM PARTICLES
COMPOSITE MODELS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
FERMIONS
INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-BARYON INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-HADRON INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
LEPTONS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MULTIPLE PRODUCTION
MUONS
NEUTRINO-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
PARTICLE MODELS
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
PARTON MODEL
POSTULATED PARTICLES
QUARK MODEL