Production of High Mass Muon Pairs by 225-GeV/c Hadron Beams and a Determination of the Pion Structure Function

Hogan, Gary Elliott ; Smith, A.J.S. ;
FERMILAB-THESIS-1979-09, 1979.
Inspire Record 142476 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.1200

Results are presented from an experiment with a large acceptance spectrometer that measured the production cross section of high mass muon pairs from the collision of 225 GeV/c hadron beams with a nuclear target including, for the first time, measurements using positive and negative pion beams. Various features of the data, such as the helicity anqle of the muon pairs and the ratio of the cross sections for positive and negative pions provide conclusive evidence for the quark-antiquark annihilation model for the production of muon pairs. This model is then used to determine the momentum distribution for valence quarks in pion. our best fit to the distribution,$\bar{\mu} (x) = (.73 \pm .11) x^{-1/2} [1-x] ^{(1.28 \pm .15)}$ , shows that the pion's structure! is clearly different from the proton's structure.

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DATA ON (E/2*PI*PMAX(RF=CM))*D2(SIG)/D(XL)/D(PT)/PT WHERE THE CENTER OF MASS DEFINITION OF THE XL ASSUMED THAT THE TARGET WAS A SINGLE NUCLEON OF MASS 0.938 GEV. Axis error includes +- 0.0/0.0 contribution (?////SYSTEMATIC ERRORS NOT GIVENFERMI//COULOMBRES-DEF(RES=J/PSI,BACK=UNCORRECTED,DEF=2.7 < M(MU+ MU-) IN GEV < 3.5)).

DATA ON (E/2*PI*PMAX(RF=CM))*D2(SIG)/D(XL)/D(PT)/PT WHERE THE CENTER OF MASS DEFINITION OF THE XL ASSUMED THAT THE TARGET WAS A SINGLE NUCLEON OF MASS 0.938 GEV. Axis error includes +- 0.0/0.0 contribution (?////SYSTEMATIC ERRORS NOT GIVENFERMI//COULOMBRES-DEF(RES=J/PSI,BACK=UNCORRECTED,DEF=2.7 < M(MU+ MU-) IN GEV < 3.5)).

DATA ON (E/2*PI*PMAX(RF=CM))*D2(SIG)/D(XL)/D(PT)/PT WHERE THE CENTER OF MASS DEFINITION OF THE XL ASSUMED THAT THE TARGET WAS A SINGLE NUCLEON OF MASS 0.938 GEV. Axis error includes +- 0.0/0.0 contribution (?////SYSTEMATIC ERRORS NOT GIVENFERMI//COULOMBRES-DEF(RES=J/PSI,BACK=UNCORRECTED,DEF=2.7 < M(MU+ MU-) IN GEV < 3.5)).

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Production of the J/psi and psi-prime (3.7) by 225-GeV/c pi+- and Proton Beams on C and SN Targets.

Branson, J.G. ; Sanders, G.H. ; Smith, A.J.S. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 38 (1977) 1331-1334, 1977.
Inspire Record 123330 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.21022

We present results of a large-acceptance experiment in which muon pairs were observed in the mass range 0.6 to 6.0 GeV/c2. Emphasis is given to features of the production of Jψ and ψ′(3.7) particles. We find [Bσ]ψ′(3.7)[Bσ]Jψ to be 0.007±0.004 for p-C and 0.018±0.007 for π+-C interactions. Comparison with results from e+e− storage rings indicates that both the Jψ and the ψ′(3.7) are produced strongly rather than electromagnetically in our experiment.

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