Characteristics of Dimuons as Evidence for a New Quantum Number

A. Benvenuti, D. Cline, W. T. Ford, R. Imlay, T. Y. Ling, A. K. Mann, R. Orr, D. D. Reeder, C. Rubbia, R. Stefanski, L. Sulak, and P. Wanderer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 35, 1203 – Published 3 November 1975
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Abstract

Neutrino-induced dimuon events probably involve the production and subsequent decay of one or more real, intermediate particles. The observed properties of dimuon events are shown not to agree with the hypotheses that the intermediate particles are heavy leptons or semiweak vector bosons. This strongly suggests production of new hadrons as the leading explanation of dimuon events. Such new hadrons, decaying weakly, would necessarily possess a new, as yet unidentified, quantum number.

  • Received 11 August 1975

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.35.1203

©1975 American Physical Society

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A. Benvenuti, D. Cline, W. T. Ford, R. Imlay, T. Y. Ling, A. K. Mann, R. Orr, D. D. Reeder, C. Rubbia, R. Stefanski, L. Sulak, and P. Wanderer

  • Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, and Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19174, and Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510

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Vol. 35, Iss. 18 — 3 November 1975

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