121736887
Diffraction scattering and the parton structure of hadrons
We apply parton-model concepts to the ''soft'' (small-momentum- transfer) processes which make up the majority of the hadronic total cross section. Diffraction is calculated as the shadow of these soft processes. We obtain an attractive picture of the essential features of total, elastic, and diffractive-inelastic scattering. In particular, the rather large cross section for inelastic diffraction, which is observed experimentally, results from fluctuations in the distribution of the wee partons which initiate interactions. These fluctuations lead to diffractive production by the mechanism of Good and Walker. The observed peripheral character of diffraction as a function of impact parameter, the absence of a forward dip in dsigma/dt dm/sup 2/, the correct integrated cross section, and the correct small-t slope of diffraction all follow naturally in our approach.
120502863
Hadronic Production with a Drell-Yan Trigger
The ratio of cross sections for producing fast ${\ensuremath{\pi}}^{+}'\mathrm{s}$ and ${\ensuremath{\pi}}^{\ensuremath{-}}'\mathrm{s}$ in association with a massive dilepton should be a strongly varying function of the mass of the pair, reducing at small mass to its value in the absence of a pair. For $\frac{{{M}_{\ensuremath{\mu}\ensuremath{\mu}}}^{2}}{s}g0.1$, the $\frac{{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{+}}{{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{\ensuremath{-}}}$ ratio should fall by a factor of 1.7 in the reactions $p+\overline{p}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\pi}+({\ensuremath{\mu}}^{+}{\ensuremath{\mu}}^{\ensuremath{-}})+X$ and $p+{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{\ensuremath{-}}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\pi}+({\ensuremath{\mu}}^{+}{\ensuremath{\mu}}^{\ensuremath{-}})+X$, rise by a factor of 2.6 in $p+{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{+}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\pi}+({\ensuremath{\mu}}^{+}{\ensuremath{\mu}}^{\ensuremath{-}})+X$, and fall by about 25% in $p+p\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\pi}+({\ensuremath{\mu}}^{+}{\ensuremath{\mu}}^{\ensuremath{-}})+X$.
118941079
Regge phenomenology of inclusive reactions
120158411
Structure of two-body correlations in high energy hadron production
Abstract Experimental information on diffraction is used to estimate long range effects in multiparticle production. Diffractively produced secondaries are found to produce a plateau in the central region. Diffraction accounts for 30% of the observed correlations and the remainder, consistent with being short range, corresponds to a cluster size of 2.4 charged particles.
124906083
Geometrical description of hadronic collisions
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.
198138883
Experimental information on the pion gluon distribution function
An experiment performed at Fermilab used double-arm calorimeter triggers to study di-jet production by 400 GeV protons and 200 GeVπ− mesons incident on liquid hydrogen. The observed ratio of positive to negative leading particles in the jets was compared forpp andπp production using a tree level parton scattering model. The results are moderately sensitive to the form of the pion gluon distribution function and yieldx g(x)⋍(1−x)2.75±0.40±0.75.
125525593
HADRON JETS IN 400-GeV p p COLLISIONS
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.
120544624
Triggering on high-transverse-momentum jets
We compare the characteristics of events selected by ''global'' and ''two-high'' triggers in large-transverse-energy hadron-hadron collisions. Using a QCD-based Monte Carlo model of Fox and collaborators, we find that the former is effectively a high-multiplicity trigger, the latter a high-planarity trigger favoring unusually clean jet events. Predictions of the model for both triggers are in good qualitative agreement with recent data.
119722876
Measurement of the dijet cross section in 400-GeV pp collisions
The invariant cross section for production of jet pairs in 400-GeV/c pp interactions has been measured as a function of p{tau} in the p{tau} range 4 to 9 GeV/c. The results are in good agreement with predictions of perturbative QCD models. 20 refs., 3 figs., 1 tab.