Enhanced leading production of D+- and D*+- in 250-GeV pi+- - nucleon interactions

The E769 collaboration Alves, G.A. ; Amato, S. ; Anjos, J.C. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 72 (1994) 812-815, 1994.
Inspire Record 361344 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.42499

A leading charm meson is one with longitudinal momentum fraction, xF>0, whose light quark (or antiquark) is of the same type as one of the quarks in the beam particles. We report on the production asymmetry, A=[σ(leading-σ(nonleading)]/[σ(leading)+σ(nonleading)] as a function of xF. The data consist of 1500 fully reconstructed D± and D*± decays in Fermilab experiment E 769. We find a significant asymmetry for the production of charm quarks is not expected in perturbative quantum chromodynamics.

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Asymmetry as function of XL.

Asymmetry as function of PT**2.


Beam flavor dependence in the hadroproduction of D+- and D(s)+- mesons

The E769 collaboration Wallace, A. ; Alves, G.A. ; Amato, S. ; et al.
FERMILAB-CONF-94-184-E, 1994.
Inspire Record 375038 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.43049

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