Inelastic scattering of high energy muons from nuclear targets
Thesis/Dissertation
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OSTI ID:6300164
This thesis concerns the measurement of the inelastic cross section of high energy muons from nuclear targets. It was performed at Brookhaven National Laboratory using a 10.5 GeV muon beam and a system of multiwire proportional chambers constructed in Rochester. The range of 0.2 < Q/sup 2/ < 2.4 (GeV/c)/sup 2/ and 1 < nu < 9 GeV was explored and it was found that in most cases muons scatter incoherently from the individual nucleons in the nucleus. However, for a small fraction of the events the nucleons shadow one another resulting in a cross section sigma/sub T/ approx. sigma/sub N/A/sup rho/ where A is the atomic number of the nuclear target and 0.9 < rho < 1.0. This shadowing effect is attributed to the strongly interacting component of the exchanged virtual photon and its magnitude was found to be in excess of the predictions of current theoretical models.
- Research Organization:
- Rochester Univ., NY (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 6300164
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS
CROSS SECTIONS
DATA
ENERGY RANGE
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
GEV RANGE
GEV RANGE 10-100
INELASTIC SCATTERING
INFORMATION
LEPTON REACTIONS
MUON REACTIONS
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUMERICAL DATA
SCATTERING
US AEC
US DOE
US ERDA
US ORGANIZATIONS
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
BNL
CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS
CROSS SECTIONS
DATA
ENERGY RANGE
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
GEV RANGE
GEV RANGE 10-100
INELASTIC SCATTERING
INFORMATION
LEPTON REACTIONS
MUON REACTIONS
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUMERICAL DATA
SCATTERING
US AEC
US DOE
US ERDA
US ORGANIZATIONS