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Title: Some General Thoughts on Two-Body Small Momentum Transfer Spectrometer Experiments at High-Energies

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1898767· OSTI ID:1898767
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  1. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)

I want to consider a general class of reactions of the type A + p → C + D where A could be any incoming particle and C and D are either particles or resonance states with C being the forward going particle. In the energy range from 50 - 100 GeV/c the cross section for any individual channel should be of the order of a few microbarns. Extrapolation from lower energy indicates that the reactions will be peaked forward so that a large fraction of the cross section will be in a region -t < 1 (Gev/c)2. One can envision two types of experiments which will be of theoretical interest. One is the measurement of angular distributions (and polarization in some cases) as a function of energy for individual channels. Another would be to measure C summing over all or a certain class of states of particle D. I will not consider elastic scattering explicitly although spectrometer parameters will be pertinent to elastic scattering as well as inelastic processes.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359
OSTI ID:
1898767
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-FN-0114; oai:inspirehep.net:52972; TRN: US2309259
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English