Jun 13 – 17, 2011
Künstlerhaus
Europe/Berlin timezone
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Cross section for quasi-real photo-production of charged hadrons with high transverse momenta in muon-deuteron scattering

Jun 14, 2011, 3:10 PM
20m
Club 1 (Künstlerhaus)

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Speaker

Mr Christian Hoeppner (TU Muenchen)

Description

The measurement of unpolarized high-$p_T$ hadron-production cross sections provides an important benchmark for the applicability of perturbative QCD (pQCD) calculations, especially at lower center-of- mass energies, where corrections beyond the next-to-leading order could become important. These calculations rely on the factorization of unpolarized and polarized cross sections into non-perturbative parton distribution functions, which parametrize the structure of the nucleon, hard scattering cross sections, calculable in pQCD, and non-perturbative fragmentation functions. In this contribution we shall present the first measurement of the unpolarized cross section for the quasi-real photo-production of charged hadrons with high transverse momenta from muon-deuteron scattering data at $/sqrt{s}=17.4$\,GeV at COMPASS. The dependence of the cross section on $p_T$ for forward and central rapidities is discussed. The presented cross section results are compared to recent NLO pQCD calculations.

Primary author

Mr Christian Hoeppner (TU Muenchen)

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