Double hadron leptoproduction in the nuclear medium

Collaboration
Oct, 2005
5 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 96 (2006) 162301
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Report number:
  • DESY-05-205
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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 AA-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