DELPHI Z0 PEAK EVENT

DELPHI Event r0033962e0002648


e+ e- ---> Mu+ Mu- gamma gamma
The Muons are identified as minimum ionizing or unseen in the E.M. calorimeter, minimum in the HAC and hits in the Muon chambers. One goes forward, the other gives a hit in the first plane of the MUB and then enters the zone at 50 degree without muon chambers. The Mu+ has 11.4 GeV and the Mu- 18.9 GeV. In addition, two showers are detected in the HPC, one with 34.1 GeV, the other with 26.7 GeV.

The main kinematical quantities for the particles and their combinations are:

                     Px      Py      Pz      E     Mass   Theta  Phi

 mu+                5.130  -1.150  10.137 11.420   0.106   27.4 347.4
 mu-               -6.707  13.987 -10.862 18.937   0.106  125.0 115.6
 gamma1           -23.109   1.231 -13.218 26.651   0.000  119.7 177.0
 gamma2            26.474 -15.376  14.961 34.075   0.000   64.0 329.9
 mu+mu-            -1.576  12.837  -0.726 30.357  27.455   93.2  97.0
 gamma1gamma2       3.364 -14.145   1.743 60.727  58.935   83.2 283.4
 mu-gamma1        -29.816  15.218 -24.081 45.589  19.439  125.7 153.0
 mu+gamma2         31.604 -16.527  25.098 45.496  12.962   54.9 332.4
 mu+gamma1gamma2    8.495 -15.295  11.880 72.147  68.978   55.8 299.0
 mu-gamma1gamma2   -3.343  -0.158  -9.119 79.664  79.070  159.9 182.7
 mu+mu-gamma1gamma2 1.788  -1.309   1.017 91.084  91.052   65.3 323.8
The energy missing in the event is negligibly small and it can thus be assumed that all particles are observed. The effective masses of the (Mu,gamma) pairs exclude that Tau's are at their origin. After fitting the momenta from the angles, assuming E-p conservation, the mass of the two gammas is 59.25 +- 0.25 GeV and of the Mu+Mu- is 26.8 +- 0.3 GeV. The event could be interpreted as a Mu+ Mu- with two photons radiated in the initial or final state, but the large mass (about 60 GeV) of the 2-gamma system and the large angles between the muons and photons (the smallest is 38 degree) is very unlikely for this explanation. This event shows the same characteristics as the L3 events with two hard gammas and the same mass of the 2-gamma system.

Ref : Presented by U.Amaldi after the seminar of S.C.C.Ting (CERN, 26 Nov 1992) on high mass photon pairs.