INELASTIC J/PSI PRODUCTION IN DEEP INELASTIC-SCATTERING FROM HYDROGEN AND DEUTERIUM AND THE GLUON DISTRIBUTION OF FREE NUCLEONS

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Allasia, D [1 ]
Amaudruz, P
Arneodo, M
Arvldson, A
Badelek, B
Baum, G
Beaufays, J
Bird, IG
Botje, M
Broggini, C
Bruckner, W
Brull, A
Burger, WJ
Ciborowski, J
Crittenden, R
van Dantzig, R
Dobbeling, H
Domingo, J
Drinkard, J
Dzierba, A
Engelien, H
Ferrero, MI
Fluri, L
Grafstrom, P
Hagberg, E
von Harrach, D
van der Heijden, M
Heusch, C
Ingram, Q
Jacholkowska, A
Janson, K
de Jong, M
Kabuss, EM
Kaiser, R
Ketel, TJ
Klein, F
Korzen, B
Kruner, U
Kullander, S
Landgraf, U
Lettenstrom, F
Lindqvist, T
Mallot, GK
Mariotti, C
van Middelkoop, G
Mizuno, Y
Nassalski, J
Nowotny, D
Pavel, N
Peschel, H
机构
[1] Univ Turin, I-10125 Turin, ITALY
[2] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-10125 Turin, ITALY
[3] Paul Scherrer Inst, CH-5234 Villigen, SWITZERLAND
[4] Univ Uppsala, S-75121 Uppsala, SWEDEN
[5] Univ Warsaw, PL-00681 Warsaw, POLAND
[6] Univ Bielefeld, D-4800 Bielefeld, GERMANY
[7] NIKHEF K, NL-1009 AJ Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
[8] Max Planck Inst, D-6900 Heidelberg, GERMANY
[9] Univ Neuchatel, CH-2000 Neuchatel, SWITZERLAND
[10] Univ Freiburg, D-7800 Freiburg, GERMANY
[11] Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[12] Univ California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[13] Univ Mainz, D-6500 Mainz, GERMANY
[14] Univ Wuppertal, D-5600 Wuppertal, GERMANY
[15] CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, SWITZERLAND
[16] Inst Nucl Studies, PL-00681 Warsaw, POLAND
[17] Univ Heidelberg, D-6900 Heidelberg, GERMANY
[18] Univ Oxford, Oxford OXI3RH, ENGLAND
[19] Univ Etat Mons, B-7000 Mons, BELGIUM
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10.1016/0370-2693(91)91124-E
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摘要
We present results on inelastic J/PSI-production from muon interactions with hydrogen and deuterium at an incident muon energy of 280 GeV. The measured cross section ratio per nucleon for muon-induced J/PSI-production in deuterium and hydrogen was found to be R(D2/H2) = 1.01 +/- 0.15. The colour singlet model is shown to provide a good description of the observed differential cross section apart from a normalisation factor. The comparison between the observed cross section and the colour singlet model prediction allows the extraction of the gluon structure function G(chi) of the nucleon. The momentum fraction-chi of the nucleon carried by the gluon is measured in the range of chi = [0.02, 0.30]. The normalised gluon distribution of free nucleons thus found can be parametrised as chi-G(chi) = 1/2 (eta + 1)(1 - chi)eta, with eta = 5.1 +/- 0.9 (stat).
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