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Physics Letters B

Volume 76, Issue 2, 22 May 1978, Pages 226-230
Physics Letters B

Production of muon pairs in the continuum region by 39.5 GeV/cπ±, K±, p and p beams incident on a copper target

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Abstract

General features of the inclusive hadroproduction of muon pairs of mass greater than 1.5 GeV/c2 are shown. For incident π, the data extend up to M=5.7 GeV/c2 (i.e.M2/s≈0.4). The scaling cross section M3dσ/dM for πN reactions is much flatter than that for pN reactions and exceeds the latter by two to three orders of magnitude at large M2/s.

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1

On leave from the I.S.T., University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.

2

On leave from Bonn University, Bonn, Germany.

3

Now at Rutherford Laboratory.

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