We present the angular distributions of muon pairs obtained in a high-statistics experiment using a 194-GeV/c π - impinging on a tungsten target. Our results are based on the analysis of 145,000 events with positive Feynman x and mass above 4.07 GeV/c 2, excluding the Υ{hooked} region. Simple first-order QCD relations allow us to determine the ratio of annihilation with hard-gluon emission to the sum of annihilation with hard-gluon emission and hard-gluon Compton scattering, which is found to be about 58% to 75%. We determine the parton square intrinsic transverse momenta to be of the order of 0.6 (GeV/c) 2, and about 30% larger in the pion than in the nucleon. At large x 1, our data agree with the higher-twist hypothesis, and support the interpretation of the relevant scale parameter as the dimuon square transverse momentum.

Angular-distributions of Muon Pairs Produced By 194 Gev/c Negative Pions

GORINI, Edoardo;
1986-01-01

Abstract

We present the angular distributions of muon pairs obtained in a high-statistics experiment using a 194-GeV/c π - impinging on a tungsten target. Our results are based on the analysis of 145,000 events with positive Feynman x and mass above 4.07 GeV/c 2, excluding the Υ{hooked} region. Simple first-order QCD relations allow us to determine the ratio of annihilation with hard-gluon emission to the sum of annihilation with hard-gluon emission and hard-gluon Compton scattering, which is found to be about 58% to 75%. We determine the parton square intrinsic transverse momenta to be of the order of 0.6 (GeV/c) 2, and about 30% larger in the pion than in the nucleon. At large x 1, our data agree with the higher-twist hypothesis, and support the interpretation of the relevant scale parameter as the dimuon square transverse momentum.
File in questo prodotto:
Non ci sono file associati a questo prodotto.

I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.

Utilizza questo identificativo per citare o creare un link a questo documento: https://hdl.handle.net/11587/365979
 Attenzione

Attenzione! I dati visualizzati non sono stati sottoposti a validazione da parte dell'ateneo

Citazioni
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.pmc??? ND
  • Scopus 203
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.isi??? 198
social impact