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Production of $$D^{*\pm}$$ mesons in 250 GeV hadron--nucleon interacions and observation of the decay mode $$D^0 \pi^{\pm}$$, $$D^0 \to K^{\mp} \pi^{\pm} \pi^0$$ (in Portuguese)

Thesis/Dissertation ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1156334· OSTI ID:1156334
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  1. Brazilian Center for Research in Physics, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
The Fermilab experiment E769 collected approximately 400 billion events using a 250 GeV /c pion, haon and proton beam incident on targets of Al, Cu, Be and W. One measured the xF and p$$2\atop{T}$$ di stributions of 232 ± 13.5 C* through the decay mode D0π, where D0 → Kππ0 without reconstructing the π0 . Fitting the distributions to the form A(l - xF )" and Be-bp$$2\atop{T}$$, respectively, the values n = 4.14±0.31 ±0.03 and b = 0.68±0.06± 0.03 Gev-2 were found. The dependence of the cross section with the atomic number was measured and the fit to the curve Aα gave α= 1.06 ± .08 ± .01. Those measurements are compared with another analysis, with those of other experiments and with predictions based on pert urbative QCD.
Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1156334
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-THESIS--1992-02
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
Portuguese