Published March 1990 | Version v1
Journal article

W2 and Q2 dependence of charged hadron and pion multiplicities in νp and anti νp charged current interactions

  • 1. Birmingham Univ. (UK). Dept. of Physics
  • 2. European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva (Switzerland). European Lab. for Particle Physics
  • 3. Imperial Coll. of Science and Technology, London (UK). Dept. of Physics
  • 4. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik und Astrophysik, Muenchen (Germany, F.R.)
  • 5. Oxford Univ. (UK). Dept. of Nuclear Physics
  • 6. University Coll., London (UK). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

Description

Using data on νp and anti νp charged current interactions from a bubble chamber experiment with BEBC at CERN, the average multiplicities of charged hadrons and pions are determined as functions of W2 and Q2. The analysis is based on ∝20000 events with incident ν and ∝10000 events with incident anti ν. In addition to the known dependence of the average multiplicity on W2 a weak dependence on Q2 for fixed intervals of W is observed. For W>2 Gev and Q2>0.1 GeV2 the average multiplicity of charged hadrons is well described by =a1+a2 ln(W2/GeV2)+a3ln(Q2/GeV2) with a1=0.465±0.053, a2=1.211±0.021, a3=0.103±0.014 for the νp and a1=-0.372±0.073, a2=1.245±0.028, a=30.093±0.015 for the anti νp reaction. (orig.)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Zeitschrift fuer Physik, C
Journal Volume
46
Journal Issue
1
Series
Z. Phys., C.
Journal Page Range
25-34
ISSN
0170-9739
CODEN
ZPCFD

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Collaborations
WA21 Collaboration.