Muon Tridents
- 25 March 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 167 (5), 1308-1313
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.167.1308
Abstract
Under the assumption that muons are heavy electrons, the total cross section for muon tridents on lead is calculated for 12.0-BeV incident muons including the effect of exchange for identical particles in the final state; various differential cross sections are presented. The positron spectrum for 31.5-MeV electron tridents on copper is also calculated and found to agree with Criegee's experimental results. It is found that the entire effect of statistics is confined to a region of phase space where the two leptons of like charge in the final state have an invariant mass of less than 3.5 times their rest mass.Keywords
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