Inclusive production of charged hadrons and K0s mesons in photon-photon collisions

OPAL Collaboration

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Inclusive production of charged hadrons and K⁰_s mesons in photon-photon collisions

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The production of charged hadrons and K⁰_S mesons in the collisions of quasi-real photons has been measured using the OPAL detector at LEP. The data were taken at e⁺e^- centre-of-mass energies of 161 and 172 GeV. The differential cross-sections as a function of the transverse momentum and the pseudorapidity of the charged hadrons and K⁰_S mesons have been compared to the leading order Monte Carlo simulations of PHOJET and PYTHIA and to perturbative next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD calculations. The distributions have been measured in the range 10 < W < 125 GeV of the hadronic invariant mass W. By comparing the transverse momentum distribution of charged hadrons measured in γγ interactions with γ-proton and meson-proton data we find evidence for hard photon interactions in addition to the purely hadronic photon interactions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	253-264
Number of pages	12
Journal	European Physical Journal C
Volume	6
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s100529801028
State	Published - 1 Jan 1999
Externally published	Yes

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Inclusive production of charged hadrons and K⁰_s mesons in photon-photon collisions

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