Observation of a Dimuon Resonance at 9.5 GeV in 400-GeV Proton-Nucleus Collisions

1977/08/01 by S. W. Herb, D. C. Hom, Leon M. Lederman +13 · 3 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Muon and positron interactions and applications #Particle accelerators and beam dynamics

paper · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.39.252

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Abstract

Dimuon production is studied in 400-GeV proton-nucleus collisions. A strong enhancement is observed at 9.5 GeV mass in a sample of 9000 dimuon events with a mass m_\ensuremathμ⁺\ensuremathμ^\ensuremath->5 GeV.

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