D*+- production in 350-GeV/c pi- N interactions.

The BEATRICE collaboration Adinolfi, M. ; Alexandrov, Y. ; Angelini, C. ; et al.
Nucl.Phys.B 547 (1999) 3-18, 1999.
Inspire Record 496156 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.49177

We report measurements of D ∗± production in interactions between 350 GeV/ c π − particles and nuclei. Reconstruction of the decay D ∗+ → D 0 π + and charge conugate, with D 0 identified via its decays to K − π + and K − π − π + π + , has allowed isolation of a sample of 611 ± 28 D ∗± mesons, produced at positive x F . Assuming a linear A-dependence, the cross-section per nucleon in the region x F > 0 is measured to be 1.41 ± 0.10 ± 0.11 μ b for D ∗+ and 1.84 ± 0.12 ± 0.15 μ b for D ∗− . We present measurements of differential cross-sections with respect to x F and P t 2 , and compare data for D ∗± (vector-meson) production with data for production of charmed pseudoscalar mesons.

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Data on D0, DBAR0, D+, and D- meson production are taken from previous publication of this collaboration (see NP B495, 3).

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