Charge Correlations in Electroproduction of Hadrons

L. S. Osborne; C. Bolon; R. Lanza; D. Luckey; D. Roth; J. F. Martin

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.41.1273

Charge Correlations in Electroproduction of Hadrons

L. S. Osborne, C. Bolon, R. Lanza, D. Luckey, D. Roth, and J. F. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 41, 1273 – Published 6 November 1978

Abstract

Using electroproduction data, we have measured the charge ratio of residual hadron yields given a fixed-charge leading hadron. We find this ratio to favor unlike charges and to depend principally on $\frac{p_{l}}{p_{l max}}$ of the residual hadrons. The two possible ratios are not charge symmetric. We also deduce that our result is not primarily a manifestation of charge conservation.

Received 21 August 1978

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.41.1273

Authors & Affiliations

L. S. Osborne, C. Bolon, R. Lanza, D. Luckey, and D. Roth^*

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

J. F. Martin^†

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, California 94305

^*Present address: Exxon Research Laboratory, Linden, N. J.
^†Present address: Science Center, Rockwell International, 1049 Camino Dos Rios, Thousand Oaks, Calif. 91360.