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Cross-section measurements for charm production by 209-GeV muons

  • A. R. Clark
  • , K. J. Johnson
  • , L. T. Kerth
  • , S. C. Loken
  • , T. W. Markiewicz
  • , P. D. Meyers
  • , W. H. Smith
  • , M. Strovink
  • , W. A. Wenzel
  • , R. P. Johnson
  • , C. Moore
  • , M. Mugge
  • , R. E. Shafer
  • , G. D. Gollin
  • , F. C. Shoemaker
  • , P. Surko

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Abstract

Interactions of 209-GeV muons in the multimuon spectrometer at Fermilab have yielded 20 072 dimuon final states, with (8110)% attributed to production of charmed states decaying to muons. The cross section for diffractive charm muoproduction is 6.9-1.4+1.9 nb. Extrapolated to Q2=0, the effective cross section for 178- (100-) GeV photons is 750-130+180 (560-120+200) nb.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)682-686
Number of pages5
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume45
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 1980
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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