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Multiplicity distributions in anti. nu. -/sub. mu. /p interactions

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5974062· OSTI ID:5974062
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Multiplicity distributions of the hadrons produced in antineutrino proton interactions are presented. The data sample, which consists of 2025 charged-current events with antineutrino energy greater than 5 GeV, comes from exposures of the 15-foot hydrogen bubble chamber to the broad-band antineutrino beam at Fermilab. The distribution in hadronic mass W has an average value of 3.7 GeV but extends up to 10 GeV. The mean multiplicity of charged hadrons depends on the hadronic mass W and varies as = (-0.44 +- 0.13) + (1.48 +- 0.06) 1n W/sup 2/ for W/sup 2/ > 4 GeV/sup 2/. The mean multiplicities for events with three or more charged tracks averaged over the total data sample are = 1.68 +-0.03 and = 1.11 +- 0.07 for ..pi../sup -/ and ..pi../sup 0/ production, respectively. The mean ..pi../sup 0/ multiplicity is found to increase slowly with n/sub -/. The integrated correlation coefficient f/sub 2//sup - -/ and the dispersion D/sup -/ are given as a function of n/sub -/. When compared to the distributions characteristic of other leptonic and hadronic reactions, a similarity is found between the anti ..nu..- data and results from hadronic reactions that have no diffractive component. Multiplicity data for the heavier particles K/sup 0/, rho and ..lambda.. are also summarized. The pion multiplicities in the current fragmentation region exceed those for the target fragmentation at all W values. They also satisfy the isospin relation 2 = + required for the fragmentation of an I = 1/2 quark when a W > 4 GeV selection is imposed.
Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab., IL (USA); Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (USA); Purdue Univ., Lafayette, IN (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76ER01428
OSTI ID:
5974062
Report Number(s):
ANL-HEP-PR-81-01; ON: DE82002109
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Related Subjects

645104* -- High Energy Physics-- Particle Interactions & Properties-Experimental-- Strong Meson-Induced Interactions-- (-1987)
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ANTILEPTON-PROTON INTERACTIONS
ANTINEUTRINO-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
ANTINEUTRINO-PROTON INTERACTIONS
BOSONS
CHARGED-CURRENT INTERACTIONS
DATA
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ENERGY RANGE
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
GEV RANGE
GEV RANGE 100-1000
HADRONS
INFORMATION
INTERACTIONS
ISOSPIN
LEPTON-BARYON INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-HADRON INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-PROTON INTERACTIONS
MESONS
MULTIPLICITY
NEUTRINO-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
NEUTRINO-PROTON INTERACTIONS
NUMERICAL DATA
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
PARTICLE PROPERTIES
PIONS
PIONS NEUTRAL
PSEUDOSCALAR MESONS