Published December 5, 1985 | Version v1
Journal article

Direct photon pair production from pions and protons at 200 GeV/c

  • 1. Ecole Polytechnique, 91 - Palaiseau (France)
  • 2. Paris-11 Univ., 91 - Orsay (France). Lab. de l'Accelerateur Lineaire
  • 3. European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva (Switzerland)
  • 4. Pisa Univ. (Italy)
  • 5. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Pisa (Italy)
  • 6. CEA Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay, 91 - Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
  • 7. College de France, 75 - Paris

Description

We present results from a direct photon pair search performed with the NA3 spectrometer, using incident positive and negative beams at 200 GeV/c interacting with a carbon target. The experiment is sensitive to photons with psub(T)>1.8 GeV/c and -0.4<=ysup(*)<=1.0, one in each arm of the apparatus. A 3 standard deviation signal is seen in π- and p interactions. The cross section is higher than the second order QCD calculations, but systematic errors are large. (orig.)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Lett., B
Journal Volume
164
Journal Issue
1-3
Series
Phys. Lett., B.
Journal Page Range
184-188
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBA

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Collaborations
NA3 Collaboration.