Nuclear dependence of Drell-Yan and J/psi production in FNAL E866 Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • Fermilab E866 has measured the target-mass dependence of Drell-Yan and J/ dimuon production induced by an 800 GeV proton beam on targets of Be, Fe and W. Clear evidence of nuclear shadowing is observed in the Drell-Yan cross section ratios per nucleon at small x 2 . The x 1 dependence of the cross section ratios provides a determination of the energy loss of ultra-relativistic quarks as they pass through cold nuclei. Preliminary results for J/ yields show maximum cross section ratios that are slightly less than 1 at an x F value near 0.1. The yield on heavy targets is much more strongly suppressed relative to light targets at larger values of x F .

published proceedings

  • NUCLEAR PHYSICS A

author list (cited authors)

  • Tribble, R. E., Beddo, M. E., Brown, C. N., Carey, T. A., Chang, T. H., Cooper, W. E., ... Young, G. R.

citation count

  • 1

complete list of authors

  • Tribble, RE||Beddo, ME||Brown, CN||Carey, TA||Chang, TH||Cooper, WE||Gagliardi, CA||Garvey, GT||Geesaman, DF||Hawker, EA||He, XC||Isenhower, LD||Kaufman, SB||Kaplan, DM||Koetke, DD||Lee, WM||Leitch, MJ||McGaughey, PL||Moss, JM||Mueller, BA||Papavassiliou, V||Peng, JC||Petitt, G||Reimer, PE||Sadler, ME||Stankus, PW||Sondheim, WE||Towell, RS||Vasiliev, MA||Webb, JC||Willis, JL||Young, GR

publication date

  • January 2000