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Nuclear Physics B

Volume 45, Issue 2, 15 August 1972, Pages 397-427
Nuclear Physics B

Qo and Qo production in KoLp interactions from 4 to 12 GeV/c

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Abstract

Experimental results are presented on the reactions Ko pQo p and Ko pQo p observed in the final state KSo π+ πp in the momentum range 4 to 12 GeV/c. The data were acquired by exposing the SLAC 1m hydrogen bubble chamber to a neutral beam. Special emphasis is placed on a detailed comparison of the production characteristics of the two strangeness states. Cross sections, differential cross sections, density matrix elements, Kπ mass spectra and exponential slopes of the momentum transfer distributions are presented for Qop and Qop. An important result of this study is the observation of a crossover at −t′ = 0.13±0.03 GeV2 in the differential cross sections. We find that this effect is explained in analogy to elastic scattering by assuming that Regge, as well as pomeron, exchange contributes to Q-production. Calculations with a Reggeized Deck model are also made and we find that such models, as presently formulated, cannot explain the observed behavior of the differential cross sections or the energy dependence of the Q cross section.

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    Work supported by the US Atomic Energy Commission.

    Now at Sheffield University, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.

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    Now at University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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    Now at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

    Now at the University of California (Riverside), Riverside, California.

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