Observation of the muonic decay of the charged intermediate vector boson W+-

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Fast online track finding for the muon trigger in the UA1 experiment

A microprocessor system will be used to trigger on high energetic muons in the UA1 experiment. The system consists of MC 68000 microprocessors. Six of them work in parallel for a first online track finding and one as supervisor to take the final trigger decision. To reduce the input rate for the microprocessors, very fast prefiltering is done by a specially constructed hardware trigger. (0 refs)

Observation of the muonic decay of the charged intermediate vector boson

Muons of high transverse momentum pμ T have been observed in the large drift chambers surrounding the UA1 detector at the CERN 540 GeV pp̄ collider. For an integrated luminosity of 108 nb-1, 14 isolated muons have been found with pT > 15 GeV/c. They are correlated with a large imbalance in total transverse energy, and show a kinematic behaviour consistent with the muonic decay of the Intermediate Vector Boson W± of weak interactions. The partial cross section is in agreement with previous measurements for electronic decays and with muon-electron universality. The W mass is determined to be mW = 81+6 -7 GeV/c2. © 1984