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Neutrino production of same-sign dimuons at the Fermilab Tevatron

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Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields

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The rate of neutrino- and antineutrino-induced prompt same-sign dimuon production in steel was measured using a sample of μ−μ− events and 25 μ+μ+ events withP μ>9 GeV/c, produced in 1.5 millionv μ and 0.3 million\(\overline {v_\mu }\) induced charged-current events with energies between 30 GeV and 600 GeV. The data were obtained with the Chicago-Columbia-Fermilab-Rochester (CCFR) neutrino detector in the Fermilab Tevatron Quadrupole Triplet Neutrino Beam during experiments E 744 and E 770. After background subtraction, the prompt rate of same-sign dimuon production is (0.53±0.24)×10−4 perv μ charged-current event and (0.52±0.33)×10−4 per\(\overline {v_\mu }\) charged-current event. The kinematic distributions of the same-sign dimuon events after background subtraction are consistent with those of the non-prompt background due to meson decays in the hadron shower of a charged-current event. Calculations ofc \(\bar c\) gluon bremsstrahlung, based on improved measurements of the charm mass parameter and nucleon structure functions by the CCFR collaboration, yield a prompt rate of (0.09±0.39)×10−4 perv μ charged-current event. In this case,c \(\bar c\) gluon bremsstrahlung is probably not an observable source of prompt same-sign dimuons.

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  1. H. Schellman

    Present address: Fermilab, 60510, Batavia, IL, USA

  2. K. Bachmann

    Present address: Widener Univ., 19013, Chester, PA, USA

  3. R. Blair

    Present address: Argonne National Laboratory, 60439, Argonne, IL, USA

  4. C. Foudas

    Present address: University of Wisconsin, 53706, Madison, WI, USA

  5. S. R. Mishra

    Present address: Harvard University, 02138, Cambridge, MA, USA

  6. B. Schumm

    Present address: LBL, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

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  1. Physics Department, University of Wisconsin, 53706, Madison, WI, USA

    P. H. Sandler, T. S. Kinnel & W. H. Smith

  2. Physics Department, Columbia University, 10027, New York, NY, USA

    K. Bachmann, R. Blair, C. Foudas, B. King, W. C. Lefmann, W. C. Leung, S. R. Mishra, P. Z. Quintas, S. A. Rabinowitz, F. Sciulli, W. seligman & M. H. Shaevitz

  3. Physcis Department, University of Chicago, 60637, Chicago, IL, USA

    F. S. Merritt, M. J. Oreglia, H. Schellman & B. Schumm

  4. Fermilab, 60510, Batavia, IL, USA

    R. H. Bernstein, F. Borcherding, M. J. Lamm, W. Marsh & D. Yovanovitch

  5. Physics Department, University of Rochester, 14627, Rochester, NY, USA

    A. Bodek, H. S. Budd, P. de Barbaro & W. K. Sakumoto

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Sandler, P.H., Kinnel, T.S., Smith, W.H. et al. Neutrino production of same-sign dimuons at the Fermilab Tevatron. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 57, 1–12 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01555733

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