An Experimental Study of the a-Dependence of $J/\psi$ Photoproduction

The Fermilab Tagged Photon Spectrometer collaboration Sokoloff, M.D. ; dos Anjos, J.C.C. ; Appel, J.A. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 57 (1986) 3003, 1986.
Inspire Record 235061 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.20205

We have studied the photoproduction of Jψ mesons on H, Be, Fe, and Pb targets using real photons at a mean energy of 120 GeV. The pT2 spectra were used to separate the coherent diffractive signals from the incoherent signals. Parametrizing the per-nucleus cross sections in terms of power-law dependences, Aα, we find that αcoh=1.40±0.06±0.04 for the coherent diffractive signals and αincoh=0.94±0.02±0.03 for the incoherent signals.

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CROSS-SECTIONS ARE RELATIVE TO THAT FOR INCOHERENT J/PSI PRODUCTION OFF BERYLLIUM.