Analysis of Charged Particle/Photon Correlations in Hadronic Multiparticle Production

Technical Report · Fri May 23 00:00:00 EDT 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/813143· OSTI ID:813143

Bjorken, James

In order to analyze data on joint charged-particle/photon distributions from an experimental search (T-864, MiniMax) for disoriented chiral condensate (DCC) at the Fermilab Tevatron collider, we have identified robust observables, ratios of normalized bivariate factorial moments, with many desirable properties. These include insensitivity to many efficiency corrections and the details of the modeling of the primary pion production, and sensitivity to the production of DCC, as opposed to the generic, binomial-distribution partition of pions into charged and neutral species. The relevant formalism is developed and tested in Monte-Carlo simulations of the MiniMax experimental conditions.

• Research Organization: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 813143
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-9865; TRN: US0303706
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: 23 May 2003
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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