Neutrino production of $M^{+}$ and $E^{+}$heavy leptons I

A theoretical study is made of M/sup +/ amd E/sup +/ heavy lepton production in inclusive neutrino reactions. The production cross sections on protons are found to be enhanced over those for isoscalar targets and can in principle exceed the cross sections for the ordinary v/sub mu /+p to mu /sup -/+X process at high energies. New estimates are given for the decay branching ratios taking into account the SPEAR data on electron positron annihilation. Monte Carlo techniques are employed to calculate q/sup 2/- nu spectra and y distributions for both the production process where nu /sub mu / to M /sup +/ and the effective process where nu /sub mu / to mu /sup +/. The normalized results are rather insensitive to the set of structure functions used. (21 refs).