Rapidities of produced particles in 200-GeV/cπ+/p/K+interactions on Au, Ag, and Mg

Autor: R. Steiner, R. Hulsizer, K. Tamai, K. Hasegawa, D. H. Brick, P. C. Trepagnier, J. Grunhaus, Aharon Levy, G. Introzzi, R. Dolfini, H. J. Hargis, A. Rafatian, E. L. Koller, P. Beilliere, S. Tether, Kazuo Abe, W. Busza, E.D. Alyea, R.J. Plano, B. Cole, G. Alexander, C. Castoldi, E. Calligarich, P. Haridas, S. Ratti, E. S. Hafen, Y. Otani, M. Sato, R. Dimarco, H. D. Taft, H. Yuta, G. T. Condo, C. Milstene, M. Badiak, I. A. Pless, H. O. Cohn, M. Kalelkar, M. Bloomer, V. Suchorebrow, J. Bober, B. F. Wadsworth, M. Widgoff, M. Higuchi, T. Kitagaki, P. F. Jacques, E. L. Hart, W. M. Bugg, R. J. Ledoux, J. L. Narjoux, T. Handler, Y. Wu, N. Gelfand, T. B. Stoughton, Akira Yamaguchi, A. H. Rogers, S. H. Oh, T. Ludlam, S. Steadman, D. Huang, E. B. Brucker, R. K. Yamamoto, V. Kistiakowsky, H. Z. Huang, L. Grodzins, T. A. Fuess, P. Lutz, P. E. Stamer, S. Noguchi, S. Tanaka, J. E. Brau, Y. Hayaschino, T. A. Frank
Rok vydání: 1990
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Zdroj: Physical Review D. 41:765-773
ISSN: 0556-2821
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.41.765
Popis: We have used the Fermilab 30-in. bubble chamber--hybrid spectrometer to study the rapidities of produced particles'' in the interactions of 200-GeV/{ital c} protons and {pi}{sup +} and {ital K}{sup +} mesons with nuclei of gold, silver, and magnesium. The average rapidity decreases linearly with the number of projectile collisions {nu}{sub {ital p}} (up to {nu}{sub {ital p}}=5) with no {ital A} dependence and little beam dependence. The ratio {ital R} of normalized rapidity distributions for hadron-nucleus to hadron-proton interactions shows a plateau in the central region, and becomes much larger in the target region. However, the increase is significantly less than has been reported in previous experiments. As a function of {nu}{sub {ital p}}, the ratio {ital R} rises linearly in the target region, more gently in the central region, and decreases slowly in the projectile region, in all cases with no {ital A} dependence. Some discrepancies with a previous experiment are observed in the central region. Long-range rapidity correlations are observed in hadron-nucleus events, but not in hadron-proton events. For the former, it is shown that the correlations exist only for those events with multiple projectile collisions, as expected in the multichain dual parton model.
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