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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.
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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.
121161753
Simple structure of charged neutral correlations
Abstract All available high-energy data agree with the assumption that the charged versus neutral pion multiplicities are described by a binomial distribution. This distribution is obtained in a variety of models. One of these is the Mueller model, supplied with the assumption of the absence of exotic contributions. In contrast to this, a binomial distribution cannot be obtained in any neutral cluster model.
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Impact structure of diffraction scattering
Some recent progress in the impact analysis of elastic and inelastic diffraction are discussed. Remarks are made on some theoretical explanation of the total cross-section rise. (FR)
118941079
Regge phenomenology of inclusive reactions
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MOMENTUM TRANSFER DEPENDENCE IN DIFFRACTION DISSOCIATION.
Abstract The mechanism of kinematic coupling between momentum transfers in producing a low mass two particle system with double-peripheral dynamics is studied theoretically and model calculations. A method of data analysis which eliminates the effects of this kinematic reflection is presented. The data of the reaction pp → pnπ + at 19 GeV/ c have been analyzed using this method. It is seen that the high production slope of the low mass ηπ + system observed in this process is not a cosequences of double-peripheral dynamics plus kinematics but must be explicitly present in the invariant matrix element.
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alphaPDE: A New multivariate technique for parameter estimation
Abstract We present α → PDE, a new multivariate analysis technique for parameter estimation. The method is based on a direct construction of joint probability densities of known variables and the parameters to be estimated. We show how posterior densities and best-value estimates are then obtained for the parameters of interest by a straightforward manipulation of these densities. The method is essentially non-parametric and allows for an intuitive graphical interpretation. We illustrate the method by outlining how it can be used to estimate the mass of the top quark, and we explain how the method is applied to an ensemble of events containing background.
118155642
Development and tests of an anode readout TPC with high track separability for large solid angle relativistic ion experiments
We have developed, constructed and tested an anode readout TPC with high track separability which is suitable for large solid angle relativistic ion experiments. The readout via rows of short anode wires parallel to the beam has been found in tests to allow two-track separability of approx.2-3 mm. The efficiency of track reconstruction for events from a target, detected inside the MPS 5 KG magnet, is estimated to be >90% for events made by incident protons and pions. 15 GeV/c x A Si ion beams at a rate of approx.25 K per AGS pulse were permitted to course through the chamber and did not lead to any problems. When the gain was reduced to simulate the total output of a minimum ionizing particle, many Si ion tracks were also detected simultaneously with high efficiency. The resolution along the drift direction (parallel to the MPS magnetic field and perpendicular to the beam direction) was <1 mm and the resolution along the other direction /perpendicular/ to the beam direction was <1 mm also. 3 refs., 5 figs.
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Measurement of the single-jet invariant cross section at Fermilab
Abstract In an experiment performed at Fermilab we have studied the production of high p t hadron jets from 400 GeV/ c pp interactions. A large solid-angle, towered calorimeter was used to trigger and reconstruct the jet events. We report results for inclusive single-jet production and compare those results with QCD predictions and results obtained at the ISR and the SPS Collider.
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Search for QGP signals at AGS with a TPC spectrometer, and comparison of our event generator predictions for plasma model and cascade interactions
We have developed and successfully tested a TPC Magnetic Spectrometer to search for QGP signals produced by ion beams at AGS. We also developed a cascade and plasma event generator the predictions of which are used to illustrate how our technique can detect possible plasma signals.
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Hadron-nucleus scattering as a function of nuclear size☆
Abstract High-energy hadron-nucleus collisions, when viewed in terms of nuclear size, exhibit a remarkable simplicity. The data suggest that nuclear matter is extremely opaque to hadrons, and that fast-forward hadrons ( x ≳0.3) arise solely from peripheral collisions. This picture naturally explains why the production ratios of different hadron species are target independent at large x .