Production of D/sup 0/ (1863) mesons in 217 GeV/c pi-minus proton interactions

Thesis/Dissertation · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:5433551

Bender, D E

This thesis reports on the analysis of data obtained during FNAL experiment E369. The Chicago Cyclotron Magnet Spectrometer Facility was used to perform a search for the hadronic production of charmed D mesons. A 217 Gev ..pi../sup -/ beam was incident on a liquid hydrogen target. The trigger required a slow recoil proton in coincidence with a muon. A total of 26 +- 8 neutral D mesons were observed through their KO..pi../sup +/..pi../sup -/ decay mode. The distributions of Feynman X, missing mass, and momentum transfer to the recoil proton were consistent with diffractive production. Cross sections were calculated based on a diffractive model.

• Research Organization: Illinois Univ., Urbana (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5433551
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ACCELERATORS
BOSONS
CHARM PARTICLES
CHARMED MESON RESONANCES
CROSS SECTIONS
CYCLIC ACCELERATORS
D RESONANCES
DIFFRACTION MODELS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ENERGY RANGE
FERMILAB ACCELERATOR
GEV RANGE
GEV RANGE 100-1000
HADRON-HADRON INTERACTIONS
HADRONS
INTERACTIONS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MESON RESONANCES
MESON-BARYON INTERACTIONS
MESON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
MESONS
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
PARTICLE MODELS
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
PION MINUS-PROTON INTERACTIONS
PION-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
PION-PROTON INTERACTIONS
POSTULATED PARTICLES
RESONANCE PARTICLES
SYNCHROTRONS