NUCLEAR-DEPENDENCE OF CHARM PRODUCTION BY A 340 GEV PI-BEAM

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ADAMOVICH, M
ALEXANDROV, Y
ANTINORI, F
BARBERIS, D
BEUSCH, W
BUYS, A
DAMERI, M
DAVENPORT, M
DUFEY, JP
FORINO, A
FRENCH, BR
GERASIMOV, S
GESSAROLI, R
GRARD, F
HURST, R
JACHOLKOWSKI, A
KIRK, A
LASSALLE, JC
LEGROS, P
MAZZANTI, P
MERONI, C
MULLER, F
OSCULATI, B
QUARENI, A
REDAELLI, N
ROSSI, L
TOMASINI, G
TORRETTA, D
VIAGGI, F
ZAVERTYAEV, M
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[1] UNIV MONS HAINAUT,B-7000 MONS,BELGIUM
[2] CERN,EUROPEAN ORG NUCL RES,CH-1211 GENEVA 23,SWITZERLAND
[3] IISN,B-7000 MONS,BELGIUM
[4] DIPARTIMENTO FIS,I-16146 GENOA,ITALY
[5] DIPARTIMENTO FIS,I-40126 BOLOGNA,ITALY
[6] DIPARTIMENTO FIS,I-20133 MILAN,ITALY
[7] IST NAZL FIS NUCL,I-16146 GENOA,ITALY
[8] IST NAZL FIS NUCL,I-40126 BOLOGNA,ITALY
[9] IST NAZL FIS NUCL,I-20133 MILAN,ITALY
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10.1016/0370-2693(92)90460-L
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摘要
Charmed mesons, produced on silicon, copper and tungsten by 340 GeV pi-, have been identified as peaks in invariant mass distributions. The comparison of the yields of charmed particles originating from interactions in Si, Cu and W allows the mass number dependence of the charm hadroproduction cross section to be measured. Assuming the usual parametrization sigma(c)=sigma-0A(alpha), we find alpha=0.92+/-0.06 for charmed mesons with [x(F)]=0.24. We do not find any decrease of a with increasing x(F) in contrast to the case of the production of particles containing only light quarks.
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