We present results from an experiment studying the production of single particles and jets (groups of particles) with high p ⊥ (transverse momentum) in 200 GeV/ c interactions on a beryllium target. We give a detailed discussion of the ambiguities in the jet definition. The jet and single-particle cross sections have a similar shape but the jet cross section is over two orders of magnitude larger. The events show evidence for the coplanar structure suggested by constituent models, and the momentum distributions of charged particles give strong support to a simple quark-quark scattering model.
NOMINAL CALORIMETER THRESHOLD WAS 3 GEV/C. AT WHICH PT TRIGGER EFFICIENCY SHOULD BE 50 PCT. THIS DATA HAS AN ADDITIONAL 20 PCT. NORMALISATION ERROR.
THIS TABLE REFERS TO JET WITH THRESHOLD OF 3 GEV/C. THE JET PONTS ARE AVERAGED OVER ROUGHLY EQUAL AMOUNTS OF +VE AND -VE BEAMS.
THIS TABLE REFERS TO JET WITH THRESHOLD OF 4 GEV/C. THE JET PONTS ARE AVERAGED OVER ROUGHLY EQUAL AMOUNTS OF +VE AND -VE BEAMS.