121815942
Evidence that hadronic interiors have a denser matter than charge distribution
Abstract An analysis of high-energy elastic and inelastic diffraction scattering provides strong evidence that the charge and matter densities of hadrons are different. When hadrons are treated as composite objects, then a correct Glauber analysis leads to an optical model with important corrections due to the hadronic wave function: One expects inelastic diffraction due to the fluctuations in the matter density of hadrons. Conversely, the experimental existence of dissociation processes gives phenomenological information about the hadronic wave function. We find the distribution of matter in nucleons to be denser than the observed charge distribution. This result has a natural interpretation from a constituent description of hadrons made from spin 1 2 quarks and colored vector gluons, which is a generalization of the Chou-Yang picture of diffraction scattering.
118941079
Regge phenomenology of inclusive reactions
121110858
BACKWARD-SCATTERING EXTRAPOLATIONS AND BARYON COUPLINGS.
Extrapolation of an asymptotic cross section to a baryon pole cannot uniquely determine the coupling constant. The only asymptotic quantities capable of doing this are the R and A parameters. The notorious discrepancy between extrapolation of dσ(πp)/du and the known Δ width is shown to be purely illusory.
124906083
Geometrical description of hadronic collisions
121154418
Dual properties of strangeness annihilation processes
Abstract The dual properties of strangeness annihilation processes are studied. Experimental evidence is presented for such processes building up a low-lying Regge singularity. Quark-diagram arguments suggest that this singularity is the exchange degenerate f'- ϕ trajectory. The possibility of studying the factorization properties of strangeness annihilation processes using hyperon beams is pointed out.
116894731
Overlap Analysis of Two-Body Scattering Amplitudes
122223354
Some TPC measurements in an oxygen beam at the AGS
Abstract The principal detector for AGS Experiment 810 is a Time Projection Chamber (TPC) in which it is intended to measure momenta and angles of a major fraction of the charged particles from each light ion collision. This report describes the results of a test of a prototype of the TPC in a beam of (14.6 × 16 = 233.6 GeV c ) oxygen ions run in June of this year.
120282404
A new multivariate technique for top quark search
Abstract We present a new multivariate event classifier, the PDE classifier, which can be used to identify rare signals in the presence of large backgrounds. The classifier is based on a discriminant function which uses kernel density estimates of the signal and background event densities. The PDE method offers the flexibility of a neural network but is conceptually simpler, theoretically better understood, and easier to optimize in practice. The technique is tested on Monte Carlo data using processes t t → e + E t + jets as signal and W + jets → e + Et + jets as background. The performance of the PDE classifier is similar to that of a neural network. Both methods outperform conventional analysis.
118154145
Proposal to study the spin dependence in the inclusive production of lambda particles with the polarized beam at Fermilab
120365910
Modular TPCs for relativistic heavy-ion experiments☆
Abstract A description is given of a TPC system that operates in a relativistic heavy-ion beam and yields good track reconstruction efficiency in very-high-multiplicity events. The mechanical construction of the chamber is discussed. A set of custom hybrid circuits are used to build a very compact, cost-effective electronics system mounted directly on the chamber. Results from running in test beams and from preliminary experimental runs are given.
120443824
Measurement of proton-proton elastic scattering at 6 GeV/c in polarized initial and final spin states
The differential elastic $p\ensuremath{-}p$ scattering cross section was measured at 6 GeV/c at the Argonne Zero Gradient Synchrotron in the range $P_{\ensuremath{\perp}}^{}{}_{}{}^{2}=0.60\ensuremath{-}1.0$ ${(\mathrm{G}\mathrm{e}\mathrm{V}/\mathit{c})}^{2}$ using a 65% polarized target and a 75% polarized proton beam of intensity 3 \ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{} ${10}^{9}$ protons/pulse. The polarization of the recoil proton was simultaneously measured with a well calibrated carbon-target polarimeter. All three polarizations were measured perpendicular to the horizontal scattering plane. Our results indicate that $P$ and $T$ invariance are both obeyed to good precision even at our largest $P_{\ensuremath{\perp}}^{}{}_{}{}^{2}$. Parity invariance implies that the eight single-flip transversity cross sections are zero, so our data gives the magnitudes of the eight remaining pure spin cross sections where all spins are measured. We find that the four double-flip transversity cross sections are nonzero.