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Distribution of transverse momenta in high-energy meson production

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Summary

A « world survey » of experimental data on the transverse momentum distributions of 5738 secondaries from high-energy inelastic interactions is analysed. It is shown that the data cannot be fitted satisfactorily by the linear exponential distribution. The baryon data are well described by a Boltzmann distribution while the pion data are a superposition of two Boltzmann distributions with widely differing parameters. Although the combined effect of their mutual variation is to keep the over-all transverse momentum practically constant, the values of these parameters and the relative weight of the two partial distributions appear to be quite sensitive to various features of the process of meson production (nature and energy of the primary, nature of the secondary, production of strange particles, etc.).

Riassunto

Si analizza una « rassegna mondiale » dei dati sperimentali sulle distribuzioni del l’impulso traversale di 5738 secondari da interazioni elastiche di alta energia. Si dimostra che i dati non possono essere approssimati soddisfacentemente dalla distribuzione esponenziale lineare. I dati dei barioni sono ben descritti da una distribuzione boltzmanniana, mentre i dati dei pioni sono una sovrapposizione di due distribuzioni boltzmanniane con parametri molto differenti. Sebbene l’effetto combinato della loro variazione mutua sia di mantenere l’impulso trasversale complessivo praticamente costante, i valori di questi parametri ed il peso relativo delle due distribuzioni parziali sembrano abbastanza sensibili a varie caratteristiche del processo di produzione dei mesoni (natura ed energia dei primari, natura dei secondari, produzione di particelle strane, ecc.).

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Friedländer, E.M. Distribution of transverse momenta in high-energy meson production. Nuovo Cimento A (1965-1970) 41, 417–442 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02754813

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