Neutral strange particle production in deep inelastic scattering at HERA
Zeitschrift Fur Physik C Particles and Fields 68:1 (1995) 29-42
Authors:
M Derick, D Krakauer, S Magill, D Mikunas, B Musgrave, J Repond, R Stanek, RL Talaga, H Zhang, R Ayad, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, P Bruni, G Cara Romeo, G Castellini, M Chiarini, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, M Corradi, I Gialas, P Giusti, G Iacobucci, G Laurenti, G Levi, A Margotti, T Massam, R Nania, C Nemoz, F Palmonari, A Polini, G Sartorelli, R Timellini, Y Zamora Garcia, A Zichichi, A Bargende, J Crittenden, K Desch, B Diekmann, T Doeker, M Eckert, L Feld, A Frey, M Geerts, G Geitz, M Grothe, T Haas, H Hartmann, K Heinloth, E Hilger, HP Jakob, UF Katz, SM Mari, A Mass, S Mengel, J Mollen, E Paul, C Rembser, D Schramm, J Stamm, R Wedemeyer, S Campbell-Robson, A Cassidy, N Dyce, B Foster, S George, R Gilmore, GP Heath, HF Heath, TJ Llewellyn, CJS Morgado, DJP Norman, JA O'Mara, RJ Tapper, SS Wilson, R Yoshida, RR Rau, M Arneodo, L Iannotti, M Schioppa, G Susinno, A Bernstein, A Caldwell, N Cartiglia, JA Parsons, S Ritz, F Sciulli, PB Straub, L Wai, S Yang, Q Zhu, P Borzemski, J Chwastowski, A Eskreys, K Piotrzkowski, M Zachara
Abstract:
This paper presents measurements of K0 and 螞 production in neutral current, deep inelastic scattering of 26.7 GeV electrons and 820 GeV protons in the kinematic range 102<640 GeV2, 0.00030.04. Average multiplicities for K0 and 螞 production are determined for transverse momenta pT>0.5 GeV and pseudorapidities |畏|<1.3. The multiplicities favour a stronger strange to light quark suppression in the fragmentation chain than found in e+e- experiments. The production properties of K0' s in events with and without a large rapidity gap with respect to the proton direction are compared. The ratio of neutral K0' s to charged particles per event in the measured kinematic range is, within the present statistics, the same in both samples. 漏 1995 Springer-Verlag.
