Neutral Particle Production In Diffractive Pion Proton And Proton Proton Interactions At 147 Gev C PDF Download

A 273,000 picture exposure of the Fermilab 30-Inch Hybrid Bubble Chamber Spectrometer was made to study .pi./sup +/, K/sup +/, and proton collisions with a proton target. A prototype lead glass gamma detector was used to determine energy and production angles of forward gamma rays and neutral pions. Single particle .pi./sup 0/ distributions were compared with .pi./sup +-/ distributions in .pi./sup +/-proton and proton--proton events. Production of fast .pi./sup 0/ and .pi./sup -/ in the proton beam was strongly suppressed relative to that observed in the .pi./sup +/ beam. Production of rho/sup 0/ and rho/sup +/, associated with the .pi./sup +/ beam, contributes to this effect. A sample of leading particle events was isolated by a selection procedure based on the kinematical configuration of all charged particles in the event. Cross sections, charge multiplicity distributions, and single particle distributions were obtained. The leading particle cross sections are predominantly diffractive, however, a decrease at higher energies is expected, due to PPR contributions in the context of a triple-Regge model. 71 references.