Charged Multiplicities of High Mass Diffractive $\pi^\pm$, $K^\pm$, and $p^\pm$ States

Cool, R.L. ; Goulianos, Konstantin A. ; Segler, S.L. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 48 (1982) 1451-1454, 1982.
Inspire Record 180508 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.20611

A measurement is reported of charged multiplicity distributions of high-mass diffractive π±, K±, and p± states produced in 100 and 200 GeV/c hadron-proton collisions, h+p→X+p. The distributions are described well by a Gaussian function that depends only on the available mass M=Mx−Mh, has a maximum at n0≅2M12, and a peak-to-width ratio n0D≅2.

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MULTIPLICITY VERSUS AVAILABLE MASS MDD-MPI.

MULTIPLICITY VERSUS AVAILABLE MASS (MDD - MK).

MULTIPLICITY VERSUS AVAILABLE MASS (MDD - MP).


A Comparison of pi pi pi, anti-K pi pi, pi K anti-K, anti-K K anti-K Systems Produced in the Reactions Meson + p --> 3 Mesons + p

The Aachen-Berlin-Bonn-CERN-Heidelberg-London-Vienna collaboration Bosetti, P. ; Otter, G. ; Rudolph, G. ; et al.
Nucl.Phys.B 101 (1975) 304-332, 1975.
Inspire Record 100226 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.36082

A comparison is made of the low-mass three-meson systems (πππ), (Kππ), (π K K ) and ( K K K ) diffractively produced in the reaction meson + proton → three mesons + proton. Several striking similarities and a few important differences are observed: (i) the reactions are consistent with the assumption that the three mesons decay entirely into a 0 − meson and a 0 + , 1 − or 2 + resonance; (ii) the three-meson mass spectra have a peak ≈ 250 MeV above the effective threshold M eff of the dominant decay mode and then fall off approximately as (mass) −3 ;(iii) the average spin 〈 J 〉 = 0.55 + 1.1 Q eff , where Q eff = M - M eff ; (iv) the average orbital angular momentum 〈 l 〉 increases according to 〈 l 〉 = 0.75 Q eff ; (v) the three-meson states are produced dominantly in unnatural spin-parity states and no evidence for their being resonant is found; (vi) the only natural spin-parity states found are the well-established 2 + resonances A 2 and K ∗ (1420); they have similar properties to the non-resonant unnatural parity states except for a dip at t = 0 in the dσ/d t distributions; (vii) both the unnatural and natural spin-parity states are produced mostly by an exchange of natural parity; (viii) there is evidence for two types of production mechanism with different polarization properties, one approximately conserving helicity in the t -channel and the other in the s -channel.

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