Abstract
For nondiffractive π-p interactions at high energy we find that the dependence of the cross section on charge multiplicity in each c.m. hemisphere exhibits Koba-Nielsen-Olesen scaling. We use this behavior to extract a cross section for diffractive excitation of 3.4±0.2 mb at 200 GeV/c. We attribute ∼55% of this to pion excitation, with a mean breakup charge multiplicity of ∼2.9, ∼30% to proton excitation, with mean charge multiplicity ∼2.2 and ∼15% to double excitation. We believe this technique is widely applicable for extracting the diffractive component in hadronic interactions.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 3933-3938 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Physical Review D |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1978 |
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