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Muon-pair and tau-pair production in two-photon collisions at LEP

ContributorsL3 Collaboration
Published inPhysics letters. B, vol. 585, no. 1-2, p. 53-62
Publication date2004
Abstract

The QED processes e+e−->e+e−μ+μ− and e+e-> e+e−τ+τ− are studied with the L3 detector at LEP using an untagged data sample collected at centre-of-mass energies 161 GeV≤√s≤209 GeV. The τ-pairs are observed through the associated decay of one τ into eνν and the other into ππν. The cross sections are measured as a function of . For muon pairs, the cross section of the γγ→μ+μ− process is also measured as a function of the two-photon centre-of-mass energy for 3 GeV⩽Wγγ⩽40 GeV. Good agreement is found between these measurements and the O(a4) QED expectations. In addition, limits on the anomalous magnetic and electric dipole moments of the τ lepton are extracted.

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L3 Collaboration. Muon-pair and tau-pair production in two-photon collisions at LEP. In: Physics letters. B, 2004, vol. 585, n° 1-2, p. 53–62. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2004.02.012
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