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Measurement of the associated 𝛾 +𝜇± production cross section in 𝑝⁢¯𝑝 collisions at √𝑠 =1.8 TeV

ContributorsCDF Collaboration
CollaboratorsProduit, Nicolasorcid
Published inPhysical review. D. Particles and fields, vol. 60, no. 9, 092003
First online date1999-10-06
Abstract

We present the first measurement of associated direct photon+muon production in hadronic collisions, from a sample of 1.8 TeV 𝑝⁢¯𝑝 collisions recorded with the Collider Detector at Fermilab. Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) predicts that these events are primarily from the Compton scattering process 𝑐⁢→𝑔⁡𝑐⁢𝛾, with the final state charm quark producing a muon. Hence this measurement is sensitive to the charm quark content of the proton. The measured cross section of 29 ±9 pb is compared to a leading-order QCD parton shower model as well as a next-to-leading-order QCD calculation.

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CDF Collaboration. Measurement of the associated 𝛾 +𝜇± production cross section in 𝑝⁢¯𝑝 collisions at √𝑠 =1.8 TeV. In: Physical review. D. Particles and fields, 1999, vol. 60, n° 9, p. 092003. doi: 10.1103/physrevd.60.092003
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Additional URL for this publicationhttps://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.60.092003
Journal ISSN0556-2821
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