Phys. Rev. D 41, 765–773 (1990)Rapidities of produced particles in 200-GeV/c π+/p/K+ interactions on Au, Ag, and MgReceived 24 July 1989; published in the issue dated 1 February 1990 We have used the Fermilab 30-in. bubble chamber–hybrid spectrometer to study the rapidities of ‘‘produced particles’’ in the interactions of 200-GeV/c protons and π+ and K+ mesons with nuclei of gold, silver, and magnesium. The average rapidity decreases linearly with the number of projectile collisions νp (up to νp=5) with no A dependence and little beam dependence. The ratio R of normalized rapidity distributions for hadron-nucleus to hadron-proton interactions shows a plateau in the central region, and becomes much larger in the target region. However, the increase is significantly less than has been reported in previous experiments. As a function of νp, the ratio R rises linearly in the target region, more gently in the central region, and decreases slowly in the projectile region, in all cases with no A dependence. Some discrepancies with a previous experiment are observed in the central region. Long-range rapidity correlations are observed in hadron-nucleus events, but not in hadron-proton events. For the former, it is shown that the correlations exist only for those events with multiple projectile collisions, as expected in the multichain dual parton model. © 1990 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.41.765
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.41.765
PACS:
13.85.Hd, 25.40.Ve, 25.80.-e
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