1997/07/26 by V. A. Ilyin, V.A. Ilyin, L.B. Okun +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Antiparticle #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Bremsstrahlung #Lepton #MINOS #Muon #Neutrino #Neutrino Physics Research #Neutrino oscillation #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Pion #Sterile neutrino #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0550-3213(98)00247-8
published as Nucl.Phys. B525 (1998) 51-72 · 12 pages, latex, 14 figures, LaTEX, PS file and figures in EPS format available at http://marwww.in2p3.fr/leptop/mugamma/mugamma.html
arxiv created 1997/07/26 · openalex publication_date 1998/08/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Conserved muonic number may turn out to be a conserved muonic charge, coupled to muonic photons, gammamu. Muons and muonic neutrinos would emit gammamu's, which might be discovered by analysing the data from the past and future high energy neutrino experiments (like CHARM II, CCFR, CHORUS, NOMAD, etc.). There are two sources of gammamu's in these experiments: 1) internal bremsstrahlung in pion and kaon decays into mu and numu, which provide neutrino beams; 2) external bremsstrahlung of muons in the shielding of the neutrino beam. In both cases the gammamu's would pass freely through the shielding and produce narrow muonic pairs in the neutrino detectors. These pairs could be distinguished from the trident events numu + Z -> numu + mu+ + mu- + Z by their kinematical properties: small pt of the muon pair, small invariant mass, etc. All the above processes are quantitatively analysed in this paper.