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On the hadronic production of lepton pairs from heavy flavour decay

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Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields

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The production of dilepton states by semileptonic decay of charm-anticharm and beauty-antibeauty meson pairs is studied for proton-proton collisions. It is shown that the measured features of dilepton production can be well described by this non-electromagnetic process up to masses of at least 5 GeV. Upper limits for hadronic heavy flavour production are derived.

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Fischer, H.G., Geist, W.M. On the hadronic production of lepton pairs from heavy flavour decay. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 19, 159–166 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01571779

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