Asymmetries between the production of D+ and D- mesons from 500 GeV/c pi(-)-nucleus interactions as a function of x(F) and p(t)(2)

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Aitala, EM
Amato, S
Anjos, JC
Appel, JA
Ashery, D
Banerjee, S
Bediaga, I
Blaylock, G
Bracker, SB
Burchat, PR
Burnstein, RA
Carter, T
Carvalho, HS
Costa, I
Cremaldi, LM
Darling, C
Denisenko, K
Fernandez, A
Gagnon, P
Gerzon, S
Gobel, C
Gounder, K
Granite, D
Halling, AM
Herrera, G
Hurvits, G
James, C
Kasper, PA
Kondakis, N
Kwan, S
Langs, DC
Leslie, J
Lichtenstadt, J
Lundberg, B
Manacero, A
MayTalBeck, S
Meadows, B
deMello, JRT
Milburn, RH
deMiranda, JM
Napier, A
Nguyen, A
dOliveira, AB
OShaugnessy, K
Peng, KC
Perera, LP
Purohit, MV
Quinn, B
Radeztsky, S
Rafatian, A
机构
[1] UNIV CINCINNATI,CINCINNATI,OH 45221
[2] CINVESTAV IPN,MEXICO CITY,DF,MEXICO
[3] FERMILAB NATL ACCELERATOR LAB,BATAVIA,IL 60510
[4] IIT,CHICAGO,IL 60616
[5] KANSAS STATE UNIV,MANHATTAN,KS 66506
[6] UNIV MISSISSIPPI,UNIVERSITY,MS 38677
[7] OHIO STATE UNIV,COLUMBUS,OH 43210
[8] PRINCETON UNIV,PRINCETON,NJ 08544
[9] UNIV AUTONOMA PUEBLA,PUEBLA 72570,MEXICO
[10] UNIV S CAROLINA,COLUMBIA,SC 29208
[11] STANFORD UNIV,STANFORD,CA 94305
[12] TEL AVIV UNIV,IL-69978 TEL AVIV,ISRAEL
[13] TUFTS UNIV,MEDFORD,MA 02155
[14] UNIV WISCONSIN,MADISON,WI 53706
[15] YALE UNIV,NEW HAVEN,CT 06511
[16] CTR BRASILEIRO PESQUISAS FIS,RIO JANEIRO,BRAZIL
[17] CTR BRASILEIRO PESQUISAS FIS,RIO JANEIRO,BRAZIL
[18] UNIV CALIF SANTA CRUZ,SANTA CRUZ,CA 95064
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10.1016/0370-2693(96)00093-7
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摘要
We present asymmetries between the production of D+ and D- mesons in Fermilab experiment E791 as a function of x(F) and p(t)(2). The data used here consist of 74000 fully-reconstructed charmed mesons produced by a 500 GeV/c pi(-) beam on C and Pt foils. The measurements are compared to results of models which predict differences between the production of heavy-quark mesons that have a light quark in common with the beam (leading particles) and those that do not (non-leading particles). While the default models do not agree with our data, we can reach agreement with one of them, PYTHIA, by making a limited number of changes to parameters used.
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