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Inclusive charged hadron production in two-photon collisions at LEP

  • L3 Collaboration
  • University of Geneva
  • University of Florence
  • CIEMAT
  • CERN
  • University of Lausanne
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
  • Louisiana State University
  • Petersburg Nuclear Physics InstituteGatchina
  • University of Bologna
  • Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
  • University of Rome La Sapienza
  • Florida Institute of Technology
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Université Savoie Mont Blanc
  • Paul Scherrer Institute
  • Purdue University
  • University of Perugia
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Wigner Research Centre for Physics

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Abstract

Inclusive charged hadron production, e+e- →e+e-h±X, is studied using 414 pb-1 of data collected at LEP with the L3 detector at centre-of-mass energies between 189 and 202 GeV. Single particle inclusive differential cross sections are measured as a function of the particle transverse momentum, pt , and pseudo-rapidity, η. For pt≤ 1.5 GeV, the data are well described by an exponential, typical of soft hadronic processes. For higher pt , the onset of perturbative QCD processes is observed. The π ±production cross section for pt > 5 GeV is much higher than the NLO QCD predictions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)105-114
Number of pages10
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume554
Issue number3-4
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 20 2003

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