The Production of Hadrons in Muon Scattering on Deuterium and Xenon Nuclei at 480-GeV (in German)
- Max Planck Inst. for Physics, Munich (Germany)
For the present thesis the hadronic final states of 6309 muon-deuterium events and 2064 muon-xenon events in the kinematical range Q2>1 (GeV/c)2, x>0.002, 0.1< y<0.85, 8< W<30 GeV, and θ>3.5 mrad were studied. The multiplicity distributions of the muon-deuterium events and the muon-xenon events were described by means of the negative binomial distribution in intervals of the c.m. energy W. The two parameters anti n (mean multiplicity) and 1/k show for the muon-deuterium events a linear dependence on ln W2. The mean multiplicity anti n on xenon (anti n=10.43±0.19) is distinctly higher than on deuterium (anti n=7.76±0.07). The rapidity distributions of the positively charged and the negatively charged hadrons from muon-deuterium events are very well described by the Monte-Carlo program LUND. In the two-particle rapidity correlation both short-range and long-range correlations can be detected. The two-particle rapidity correlation in the xenon data are different from the deuterium data in the backward range. This difference indicates that the intranuclear cascade takes place in a limited range of small rapidities - relatively independently on the residual fragmentation process.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1372852
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-THESIS-1992-25; 347949
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- German
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