Study of muon pairs in hadronic events with bottom tag using L3 data recorded near the Z resonance

Abstract

A recent publication based on ALEPH $\mathrm{e}^+\mathrm{e}^-$ data taken near the Z resonance reports an excess, near 30 GeV, in the di-muon mass spectrum for events containing b quarks. In this paper we measure the di-muon mass spectrum for L3 data with a bottom tag, recorded in the years 1994 and 1995 at the LEP collider at CERN, and compare it to Monte Carlo predictions.