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Effect of Initial Particle Instability in Muon Collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-02-03 v2

Abstract

We study μ+μ\mu^+\mu^- collision with production of some state FF (for example, F=W+F= W^+) and (eνˉ)(e\bar\nu) system with the effective mass, which is less than muon mass. In this case the momentum kk, transferred from μ\mu to eνˉe\bar\nu system (virtual neutrino momentum), can be time--like. The path of integration over k2k^2 goes through the pole at k2=0k^2=0. It gives divergent cross section. This divergence disappears if the finite width Γ\Gamma of initial μ\mu is taken into account. It gives the factor Γ1\propto\Gamma^{-1} in cross section. The compensating factor Γ\Gamma appears from μeνˉν\mu\to e\bar\nu \nu subprocess. The resulting cross section is finite but high enough.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9509314,
  title  = {Effect of Initial Particle Instability in Muon Collisions},
  author = {I. F. Ginzburg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9509314},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

4 pages. Improvement of LaTeX file