Production of heavy leptons in proton-proton collisions and the parton model

1 January 1975

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D

Vol. 11 (1) , 73-80
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.11.73

Abstract

Searches for leptons heavier than the muon may be conducted in hadron-hadron collisions:

p + p \to L^{+} + L^{-} + hadrons

. We apply the parton model to this process to calculate the correlations and to estimate the cross sections for the decay products of the heavy leptons.

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