Experimental Study of Muon Pairs Produced by 252-GeV Pions on Tungsten



We present the results of a study of muon pairs with invariant masses greater than 4.05 GeV/c2 produced in high-energy pion-nucleon interactions. The production cross section together with the inferred pion and nucleon structure functions are reported and compared with other experiments and with QCD predictions. The transverse-momentum distributions are also presented. Finally, the full angular distribution in cos3b8 and 3c6 is given as a function of mass, Feynman x, and transverse momentum. Longitudinal photon polarization is seen in the lower portion of the mass range at high x3c0. This result is compared with a higher-twist model.


journal: Phys.Rev.D 39 (1989) 92   ( doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.39.92 )
inspire: https://inspirehep.net/literature/280845
HepData: https://www.hepdata.net/record/ins280845

Additional note


Observable is d²σ/(dxF d√τ) [nb/nucleon] averaged over each (xF, √τ) bin. Different grid files correspond to different ranges in √τ, bins in each grid correspond to different xF.




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