Comment on the Updated CDF "Ghost" Events

TL;DR

This paper critically examines the CDF 'ghost' muon events, demonstrating that their angular distribution defies explanation by existing models involving light X-particle decays, challenging conventional QCD expectations.

Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis showing that the observed muon angular distribution cannot be reproduced by models based on light X-particle decays, questioning the interpretation of these events.

Findings

CDF 'ghost' events have a back-to-back muon angular distribution.

Models with light X-particles predict broader distributions, inconsistent with observations.

The results challenge the QCD-based explanation of the events.

Abstract

In 2008 the CDF Collaboration announced the discovery of an excess of events with two or more muons, dubbed "ghost" events for their unusual properties. In a recent update, CDF finds that the azimuthal angle distribution between the primary (trigger) muons is significantly more back-to-back than that of all known sources of di-muon backgrounds. Here we show that this angular distribution cannot be reproduced in models where the muons are produced in the decays of relatively light X-particles: all models of this kind also predict a much broader distribution than that found by CDF. We conclude that the CDF measurement cannot be described via the annihilation of strongly interacting partons, and thus seems to be in conflict with basic tenets of QCD.