High transverse energy proton-nuclear interactions

Thesis/Dissertation · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:5092240

Rice, J A

A study of high transverse energy events resulting from 400 GeV protons scattering from targets of hydrogen, carbon, aluminum, copper, tin, and lead has been per formed with the E609 apparatus at Fermilab. Wire chambers and a highly segmented calorimeter detect secondary particles. The use of efficient jet collecting triggers and of a beam jet calorimeter have been originally applied to nuclear target studies in this thesis. A{sup {alpha}} scaling with hydrogen deviations is observed for E{sub T} and planarity. The data provide evidence that A{sup {alpha}} scaling results from multiple scattering. Evidence for hadron jets is seen with a large solid angle calorimeter for all the targets when triggers requiring two high E{sub T} single particles are employed. Jet cross-section for nuclei are approximately determined herein. Jet event angular distributions possibly indicate that low and high transverse energy particles in jets from nuclei may result, in part, from different types of interactions.

• Research Organization: Rice Univ., Houston, TX (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5092240
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ACCELERATORS
BARYON-BARYON INTERACTIONS
CARBON 12 TARGET
CYCLIC ACCELERATORS
DATA
DATA ANALYSIS
ENERGY RANGE
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FERMILAB ACCELERATOR
GEV RANGE
GEV RANGE 100-1000
HADRON-HADRON INTERACTIONS
HYDROGEN 1 TARGET
INFORMATION
INTERACTIONS
LINEAR MOMENTUM
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
MEASURING METHODS
NUCLEON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
NUMERICAL DATA
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
PROTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
SYNCHROTRONS
TARGETS
TRANSVERSE MOMENTUM