Direct Observation of Muon-Pair Production by High-Energy Muons in the Liquid-Argon Calorimeter BARS.

Autor: Anikeev, V. B., Gurzhiev, S. N., Denisov, S. P., Zolina, O. S., Kelner, S. R., Kirina, T. M., Kokoulin, R. P., Lipaev, V. V., Petrukhin, A. A., Rybin, A. M., Sergiampietri, F., Yanson, E. E.
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Zdroj: Physics of Atomic Nuclei; Feb2005, Vol. 68 Issue 2, p259-266, 8p
Abstrakt: Experimental data accumulated over a long-term exposure of the big liquid-argon spectrometer BARS at the Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP, Protvino) in a horizontal flux of cosmic rays are analyzed with the aim of selecting events that correspond to muon-pair production by muons in the sensitive volume of the detector. The results obtained in this way make it possible to perform, for the first time, a direct experimental test of various theoretical estimates of the total cross section for electromagnetic muon-pair production by high-energy muons.© 2005 Pleiades Publishing, Inc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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