Determination of the total cc production cross section in 340 GeV/c Sigma- nucleus interactions

Autor: Adamovich, M.I., Alexandrov, Y.A., Barberis, D., Beck, M., Bérat, C., Beusch, W., Boss, M., Brons, S., Brückner, W., Buénerd, M., Busch, C., Büscher, C., Charignon, F., Chauvin, J., Chudakov, E.A., Dersch, U., Dropmann, F., Engelfried, J., Faller, F., Fournier, A., Gerassimov, S.G., Godbersen, M., Grafström, P., Haller, T., Heidrich, M., Hubbard, E., Hurst, R.B., Königsmann, K., Konorov, I., Keller, N., Martens, K., Martin, P., Masciocchi, S., Michaels, R., Müller, U., Neeb, H., Newbold, D., Newsom, C., Paul, S., Pochodzalla, J., Potashnikova, I., Povh, B., Ransome, R.D., Ren, Z., Rey-Campagnolle, M., Rosner, G., Rossi, L., Rudolph, H., Scheel, C., Schmitt, L., Siebert, H.-W., Simon, A., Smith, V.J., Thilmann, O., Trombini, A., Vesin, E., Volkemer, B., Vorwalter, K., Walcher, T., Wälder, G., Werding, R., Wittmann, E., Zavertyaev, M.V.
Přispěvatelé: Publica
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2000
Popis: The production of charmed particles by 340 GeV/c momentum - was studied in the hyperon beam experiment WA89 at the CERN-SPS, using the -spectrometer. In two data-taking periods in 1993 and 1994 an integrated luminosity of 1600 b-1 on copper and carbon targets was recorded. From the reconstruction of 930 ± 90 charm particle decays in 10 decay channels production cross sections for D, D, Ds- and c+ were determined in the region xF > 0. Assuming an A1 dependence of the cross section on the nucleon number, we calculate a total cc production cross section of cc(xF > 0) = 5.3 ± 0.4 (stat) ± 1.0 (syst) + 1.0 (c) b per nucleon. The last term is an upper limit on the unknown contribution from charmed-strange baryon production.
Databáze: OpenAIRE