Semi-empirical model for high energy inclusive reactions

Technical Report · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:5374977

Wells, J

A resume of contemporary data on inclusive reactions in all high energy interactions is presented, and a new technique for the division of the inclusive cross-sections into beam residue, target residue and central components is discussed. A semi-empirical quark model is proposed which correctly describes all hadronically induced inclusive cross-sections above ..sqrt.. approximately = 3.0 GeV. The model is then extended to predict absolute cross-sections for lepton and photon induced reactions, a comparison with data shows the predictions to be essentially correct. Many qualitative features and puzzling aspects of current data are quantitatively explained by the model.

• Research Organization: Oxford Univ. (UK). Nuclear Physics Lab.
• OSTI ID: 5374977
• Report Number(s): PB-83-254193
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

645201* -- High Energy Physics-- Particle Interactions & Properties-Theoretical-- General & Scattering Theory
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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
BARYON REACTIONS
BARYONS
BOSONS
CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS
CROSS SECTIONS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
FERMIONS
HADRON REACTIONS
HADRONS
INCLUSIVE INTERACTIONS
INTERACTIONS
KAONS
LEPTON REACTIONS
LEPTONS
MASSLESS PARTICLES
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MESONS
NUCLEAR MODELS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUCLEON REACTIONS
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
PHOTONS
PIONS
POSTULATED PARTICLES
PROTON REACTIONS
PSEUDOSCALAR MESONS
QUARKS
STRANGE PARTICLES