Charm Production by Cosmic Muons
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2011-05-23 v3
Abstract
Narrow muon bundles in underground detectors permit to study muoproduction reactions that take place in the surrounding rock. We analyze the relevance of a QED+QCD reaction, muoproduction of "open charm". The contribution to double muon events is estimated to be 4-8 % of the one due to QED "trident" process, for an ideal detector located under a rock depth of 3 km water equivalent, and an observation threshold of 1 GeV.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0004073,
title = {Charm Production by Cosmic Muons},
author = {Francesco Vissani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0004073},
year = {2011}
}
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9 pages, 1 figure