Heavy-quark and lepton-pair production on nuclei

Journal Article · Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1993 · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.47.919· OSTI ID:6993271

Boreskov, K; Capella, A; Kaidalov, A; Tran Thanh Van, J ^[1]

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1. Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Hautes Energies, Universite de Paris XI, Batiment 211, 91405 Orsay CEDEX (France)

We present a description of the [ital A] dependence of heavy-quark and Drell-Yan pair production in hadron-nucleus collisions, based on the Reggeon approach to strong interactions at high energies and the parton model. The same method has been successfully applied to the production of light-quark states. The existence of a new energy scale, which depends on the mass and [ital x][sub [ital F]] of the heavy system, is emphasized. A phenomenological model, which includes both the shadowing corrections to the nucleon structure function and the rescattering of the heavy-quark states, is proposed. The model quantitatively describes the available experimental data on [ital J]/[psi] and heavy lepton-pair production in [ital hA] collisions as well as the European Muon Collaboration effect at low [ital x].

• OSTI ID: 6993271
• Journal Information: Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States), Vol. 47:3; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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