Journal article
Cross sections and energy loss for lepton pair production in muon transport
Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, Vol.79(5), 053008
03/2009
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.053008
Abstract
We reevaluate electron-positron pair production from electromagnetic interactions of muons in transit through materials. Our approach, through the use of structure functions for inelastic and elastic scattering and including hadronic recoil, make the formalism useful for tau pair production at high energies. Our results for electron-positron pairs agree well with prior evaluations. Tau pair production, however, has significant contributions from inelastic scattering in addition to the usual coherent scattering with the nucleus and scattering with atomic electrons.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Cross sections and energy loss for lepton pair production in muon transport
- Creators
- Alexander Bulmahn - University of IowaMary Hall Reno - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, Vol.79(5), 053008
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.053008
- ISSN
- 1550-7998
- eISSN
- 1550-2368
- Publisher
- American Physical Society
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/2009
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984199925902771
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