ENERGY-LOSS AT LARGE XF IN NUCLEAR COLLISIONS

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作者
GAVIN, S [1 ]
MILANA, J [1 ]
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[1] COLL WILLIAM & MARY, DEPT PHYS, WILLIAMSBURG, VA 23185 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.1834
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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Measurements of the Drell-Yan process and of charmonium and bottomonium production at CERN and Fermilab show a depletion at high Feynman x in large relative to small nuclear targets. We can attribute this depletion to energy loss of initial and final states, provided that the loss is (dE/dz)Drell-Yan = 4/9 (dE/dz)charm approximately 1.5 GeV/fm at the highest x(F) measured. This small loss is magnified in the differential cross section due to the strong behavior approximately (1 - x)n of the projectile's structure functions at large x.
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