Published September 1991 | Version v1
Journal article

Comparison of forward hadrons produced in muon interactions on nuclear targets and deuterium

  • 1. Sheffield Univ. (UK). Dept. of Physics
  • 2. Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw (Poland)
  • 3. Warsaw Univ. (Poland). Inst. of Physics
  • 4. Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (USA). Dept. of Physics
  • 5. European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva (Switzerland)
  • 6. Liverpool Univ. (UK). Dept. of Physics
  • 7. Aix-Marseille-2 Univ., 13 - Marseille (France). Centre de Physique des Particules
  • 8. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg (Germany, F.R.)
  • 9. Oxford Univ. (UK). Nuclear Physics Lab.
  • 10. Rutherford Appleton Lab., Chilton (UK)
  • 11. Grenoble-1 Univ., 74 - Annecy (France). Lab. de Physique des Particules
  • 12. Wuppertal Univ. (Gesamthochschule) (Germany, F.R.). Fachbereich 8 - Naturwissenschaften 1 - Physik
  • 13. Lancaster Univ. (UK). Dept. of Physics
  • 14. Freiburg Univ. (Germany, F.R.). Fakultaet fuer Physik
  • 15. Turin Univ. (Italy). Ist. di Fisica
  • 16. Uppsala Univ. (Sweden). Dept. of Radiation Sciences
  • 17. Technische Hochschule Aachen (Germany, F.R.). Lehrstuhl fuer Experimentalphysik 3A und 3. Physikalisches Inst.
  • 18. Mons Univ. (Belgium). Faculte des Sciences

Description

Differential multiplicities of forward produced hadrons in deep inelastic muon scattering on nuclear targets have been compared with those from deuterium. The ratios are observed to increase towards unity as the virtual photon energy increases with no significant dependence on the other muon kinematic variables. The hadron transverse momentum distribution is observed to be broadened in nuclear targets. The dependence on the remaining hadron variables is investigated and the results are discussed in the framework of intranuclear interaction models and in the context of the EMC effect. (orig.)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Zeitschrift fuer Physik. C
Journal Volume
52
Journal Issue
1
Series
Z. Phys., C.
Journal Page Range
1-11
ISSN
0170-9739
CODEN
ZPCFD

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract CPBP 01.06; CPBP 01.09
Collaborations
European Muon Collaboration.