Published April 4, 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

An additional study of multi-muon events produced in pp¯ collisions at √(s)=1.96 TeV

  • 1. Division of High Energy Physics, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute of Physics, FIN-00014, Helsinki (Finland)
  • 2. Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, CSIC–University of Cantabria, 39005 Santander (Spain)
  • 3. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova-Trento (Italy)
  • 4. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (United States)
  • 5. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 (United States)
  • 6. Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, I-00044 Frascati (Italy)
  • 7. Institute of Experimental Physics, 040 01 Kosice (Slovakia)
  • 8. Comenius University, 842 48 Bratislava (Slovakia)
  • 9. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL 60510 (United States)
  • 10. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 (United States)
  • 11. Waseda University, Tokyo 169 (Japan)
  • 12. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, RU-141980 Dubna (Russian Federation)
  • 13. Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 (United States)
  • 14. University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH (United Kingdom)
  • 15. Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)
  • 16. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 (United States)
  • 17. University of Siena (Italy)

Description

We present one additional study of multi-muon events produced at the Fermilab Tevatron collider and recorded by the CDF II detector. We use a data set acquired with a dedicated dimuon trigger and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.9 fb-1. We investigate the distribution of the azimuthal angle between the two trigger muons in events containing at least four additional muon candidates to test the compatibility of these events with originating from known QCD processes. We find that this distribution is markedly different from what is expected from such QCD processes and this observation strongly disfavors the possibility that multi-muon events result from an underestimate of the rate of misidentified muons in ordinary QCD events.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.02.081

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2012.02.081;
arXiv
arXiv:1111.5242v2;
PII
S0370-2693(12)00232-8;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
710
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 278-283
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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