Particle Production in Deep Inelastic Muon Scattering

Thesis/Dissertation · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1991

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1426688· OSTI ID:1426688

Ryan, John James ^[1]

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1. MIT

The E665 spectrometer at Fermila.b measured Deep-Inelastic Scattering of 490 GeV /c muons off several targets: Hydrogen, Deuterium, and Xenon. Events were selected from the Xenon and Deuterium targets, with a range of energy exchange, $$\nu$$, from 100 GeV to 500 GeV and for large ranges of $Q^2$ and $$X_{Bj}$$: 0.1 (GeV /$c)^2$ < $Q^2$ < l00(GeV /$c)^2$ and 0.001 < $$X_{Bj}$$; < 0.1. The presented results include comparisons of distributions .of produced hadrons, as functions of the hadron variables $$Z$$ and $$\phi$$. In both variables, the dependence of the distributions upon the rank of the hadrons, in terms of their momenta., has been examined. The longitudinal energy distributions (Z) show no nuclear dependence, even in the kinematic region of Shadowing. The asymmetry of the distribution of hadron azimuthal angle is demonstrated, but no nuclear dependence is observed in this asymmetry. The asymmetry exhibits strong dependence upon the rank of the hadron.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (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: 1426688
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-THESIS-1991-26; 330869
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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