Study of the High-Mass Dimuon Continuum in 400-GeV Proton-Nucleus Collisions
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- 13 February 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 40 (7) , 435-438
Abstract
The mass spectrum of muon pairs in the range 5 to 15 GeV is studied in the inclusive reaction . The and continuum distribution are presented as is the dependence of the continuum. Comparison with a parton-annihilation model yields a sea-quark distribution.
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