High $p_T K^\pm / \pi^\pm$ Production in $p p$ Collisions at the {ISR}: Strangeness Suppression and Gluon Effects

The Ames-Bologna-CERN-Dortmund-Heidelberg-Warsaw collaboration Breakstone, A. ; Buchanan, C.D. ; Campanini, R. ; et al.
Phys.Lett.B 135 (1984) 510-514, 1984.
Inspire Record 193431 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.30589

The ratios of high p T charged kaon to pion production cross sections at √ s = 45 and 62 GeV are presented. The values of the K ± π ± ratios are essentially independent of both √ s and x T = 2p T √s and are compatible with a strangeness suppression factor λ = 0.55. By contrast, the K − π − values fall with x T suggesting a gluonic origin of K − . QCD calculations agrees with the measurements.

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