Searching for Heavy Quarks at NMC: A Simple Estimate of Background Muons from $π$ and $K$ decays
Abstract
Description
New physics can be searched for in deep inelastic scattering experiments. New phenomena, like additional production mechanisms for heavy quarks, manifest themselves through production and decays of short-lived hadrons, which give additional muons in their decays. Muons from decays of light mesons can then be a severe background, especially at fixed target experiments. In order to make a first estimate of such a background a simple analytic method is here developed and applied on the muon scattering experiment NMC.
10 pages, also available at http://www3.tsl.uu.se/thep/papers/
10 pages, also available at http://www3.tsl.uu.se/thep/papers/