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Production of charm mesons at high transverse momentum in 515-GeV/c pi- nucleon collisions.

The Fermilab E706 collaboration Apanasevich, L. ; Bacigalupi, J. ; Baker, W. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.D 56 (1997) 1391-1406, 1997.
Inspire Record 440711 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.42224

We present results on the production of high transverse momentum charm mesons in collisions of 515 GeV/c negative pions with beryllium and copper targets. The experiment recorded a large sample of events containing high transverse momentum showers detected in an electromagnetic calorimeter. From these data, a sample of charm mesons has been reconstructed via their decay into the fully charged K pi pi mode. A measurement of the single inclusive transverse momentum distribution of charged D mesons from 1 to 8 GeV/c is presented. An extrapolation of the measured differential cross section yields an integrated charged D cross section of 11.4+-2.7(stat)+-3.3(syst) microbarns per nucleon for charged D mesons with Feynman x greater than zero. The data are compared with expectations based upon next-to-leading order perturbative QCD, as well as with results from PYTHIA. We also compare our integrated charged D cross section with measurements from other experiments.

2 data tables
Table 1

The mean values of PT are the PT values which correspond to the average values of the cross sections in the appropriate bins as determined by the PYTHIA Mponte-Carlo.

Table 2

The PYTHIA Monte-Carlo simulation is used for extrapolation of D+- cross section for XL < -0.2.


Feynman-x and Transverse Momentum Dependence on $D^{\pm}$ and $D^0$, $\bar{D}^0$ Production in 250 GeV $\pi^-$ Nucleon Interactions

The Fermilab E769 collaboration Alves, G.A. ; Amato, S. ; Anjos, J.C. ; et al.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 69 (1992) 3147-3150, 1992.
Inspire Record 338063 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.19804

We measure the differential cross section with respect to Feynman-x (xF) and transverse momentum (PT) for charm meson production using targets of Be, Al, Cu, and W. In the range 0.1<xF<0.7, dσ/dxF is well fit by the form (1-xF)n with n=3.9±0.3. The difference between n values for D− and D+ is 1.1±0.7. However, we find an asymmetry of 0.18±0.06 favoring the production of D− compared to D+. In the lower PT range, <2 GeV, dσ/dPT2 is well fit by the form exp(-b×PT2) with b=1.03±0.06 GeV−2, while in the higher PT range, 0.8 to 3.6 GeV, it is well fit by the form exp(-b’×PT) with b’=2.76±0.08 GeV−1. The shape of the differential cross section has no significant dependence on atomic mass of the target material.

4 data tables
Table 1

No description provided.

Table 2

Results of fit to DSIG/DXL distribution of the form (1-XL)**POWER in the XL range 0.1 to 0.7. Statistical errors only. Systematic errors are small in comparison.

Table 3

Results of fit to DSIG/DPT**2 distribution of the form exp(-POWER*PT**2) in the PT**2 range 0.0 to 4.0 GeV**2.

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