Measurement of (anti)deuteron and (anti)proton production in DIS at HERA
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2007
Abstract
The first observation of (anti)deuterons in deep inelastic scattering at HERA has been made with the ZEUS detector at a centre-of-mass energy of 300-318 GeV using an integrated luminosity of 120 pb-1. The measurement was performed in the central rapidity region for transverse momentum per unit of mass in the range 0.3 < pT / M < 0.7. The particle rates have been extracted and interpreted in terms of the coalescence model. The (anti)deuteron production yield is smaller than the (anti)proton yield by approximately three orders of magnitude, consistent with the world measurements. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords
Relativistic Heavy-ion Collisions, Fresnel Integrals, Nucleons
Divisions
PHYSICS
Funders
PP/E000673/1,PP/E000452/1
Publication Title
Nuclear Physics B
Volume
786
Issue
1-2
Publisher
Elsevier