Double hadron leptoproduction in the nuclear medium
Collaboration
5 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.Lett. 96 (2006) 162301
e-Print:
- hep-ex/0510030 [hep-ex]
Report number:
- DESY-05-205
Experiments:
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Abstract: (arXiv)
First measurement of double-hadron production in deep-inelastic scattering has been measured with the HERMES spectrometer at HERA using a 27.6 GeV positron beam with deuterium, nitrogen, krypton and xenon targets. The influence of the nuclear medium on the ratio of double-hadron to single-hadron yields has been investigated. Nuclear effects are clearly observed but with substantially smaller magnitude and reduced -dependence compared to previously measured single-hadron multiplicity ratios. The data are in fair agreement with models based on partonic or pre-hadronic energy loss, while they seem to rule out a pure absorptive treatment of the final state interactions. Thus, the double-hadron ratio provides an additional tool for studying modifications of hadronization in nuclear matter.- 13.60.-r
- 25.75.Gz
- 13.87.Fh
- 25.30.Rw
- nuclear matter
- hadron leptoproduction
- deep inelastic scattering
- electron nucleus: deep inelastic scattering
- deuteron
- nitrogen
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