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Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 191802 (2006) [7 pages]

Search for Excited and Exotic Muons in the μγ Decay Channel in pp̅ Collisions at s=1.96  TeV

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A. Abulencia et al. CDF Collaboration
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Received 19 June 2006; published 9 November 2006

We search for excited and exotic muon states μ* using an integrated luminosity of 371  pb-1 of pp̅ collision data at s=1.96  TeV. We search for associated production of μμ* followed by the decay μ*μγ. We compare the data to model predictions as a function of the mass of the excited muon Mμ*, the compositeness energy scale Λ, and the gauge coupling factor f. No signal above the standard model expectation is observed. We exclude 107<Mμ*<853  GeV/c2 for Λ=Mμ* in the contact interaction model, and 100<Mμ*<410  GeV/c2 for f/Λ=10-2  GeV-1 in the gauge-mediated model, both at the 95% confidence level.

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URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.191802
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.191802
PACS:
12.60.Rc, 13.85.Qk, 14.60.Hi