2003/07/11 by HERMES collaboration, A. Airapetian, Н. Акопов +98 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #DESY #Deuterium #Fragmentation (computing) #Hadron #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Krypton #Multiplicity (mathematics) #Nuclear physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Xenon #hep-ex #nucl-ex #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2003.10.026
published as Phys.Lett.B577:37-46,2003 · 8 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2003/07/11 · openalex publication_date 2003/11/06 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The influence of the nuclear medium on lepto-production of hadrons was studied in the HERMES experiment at DESY in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering of 27.6 GeV positrons off deuterium, nitrogen and krypton targets. The differential multiplicity for krypton relative to that of deuterium has been measured for the first time for various identified hadrons (π+, π-, π0, K+, K-, p and p) as a function of the virtual photon energy ν, the fraction z of this energy transferred to the hadron, and the hadron transverse momentum squared pt2. The multiplicity ratio is strongly reduced in the nuclear medium at low ν and high z, with significant differences among the various hadrons. The distribution of the hadron transverse momentum is broadened towards high pt2 in the nuclear medium, in a manner resembling the Cronin effect previously observed in collisions of heavy ions and protons with nuclei.