Published September 1, 1979 | Version v1
Journal article

Production of W bosons in proton-nucleus collisions

  • 1. Physics Department, Technion: Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Description

It is shown that nuclear effects can cause an enhancement in the cross section for production of W bosons in a proton-nucleus collision. The cross section near threshold is a few orders of magnitude higher than expected from a linear dependence on the atomic number. Encouraging implications for experiments with fixed targets at laboratory energies of 103 GeV and higher are discussed. We also discuss lepton-pair production off nuclei

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Rev., D
Journal Volume
20
Journal Issue
5
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
1160-1163
ISSN
0556-2821