A comparison of high transverse momentum direct photon and neutral pion events in negative pion and proton-nucleus collisions at 31. 5 GeV center of mass energy

Thesis/Dissertation · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:7015395

Brown, D S

In 1988 experiment E706 at Fermilab wrote approximately 6 million triggered events to tape. The purpose of this was to measure the cross sections for high p [perpendicular] [pi][sup 0] and single photon production. In addition, the cross sections were to be measured for proton and [pi][sup [minus]] beams on a variety of nuclear targets. To achieve these goals the experiment had been furnished with a large liquid argon calorimeter. A magnetic spectrometer for studying the associated product of charge particles had been built as well. The purpose of this analysis is to compare the associated charged particle structure of high p [perpendicular] [pi][sup 0] and direct photon events to see if they are indeed different. The current theory of hadron-hadron interactions, quantum chromodynamics, makes a number of predictions indicating that they are. The charged particles recoiling from a high p [perpendicular] [gamma] or [pi][sup 0] trigger will be used to reconstruct the [pi][sup 0] + jet and [gamma] + jet angular and invariant mass distributions for this study. Finally, the invariant mass distributions will be employed to study the gluon structure functions of hadrons.

• Research Organization: Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
• OSTI ID: 7015395
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
BARYON-BARYON INTERACTIONS
BOSONS
CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS
CROSS SECTIONS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
EMISSION
ENERGY RANGE
GEV RANGE
GEV RANGE 10-100
HADRON REACTIONS
HADRON-HADRON INTERACTIONS
HADRONS
INTERACTIONS
LINEAR MOMENTUM
MESON REACTIONS
MESON-BARYON INTERACTIONS
MESON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
MESONS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUCLEON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
PHOTON EMISSION
PION MINUS REACTIONS
PION REACTIONS
PION-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
PIONS
PIONS NEUTRAL
PROTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
PSEUDOSCALAR MESONS
TRANSVERSE MOMENTUM