1. Search for diffractive charm production in 800 GeV/c proton-silicon interactions
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K. Kodama, N. Ushida, A. Mokhtarani, V.S. Paolone, J.T. Volk, J.O. Wilcox, P.M. Yager, R.M. Edelstein, A.P. Freyberger, D.B. Gibaut, R.J. Lipton, W.R. Nichols, D.M. Potter, J.S. Russ, J.J. Smetanka, C. Zhang, Y. Zhang, H.I. Jang, J.Y. Kim, T.I. Kim, I.T. Lim, M.Y. Pac, B.R. Baller, R.J. Stefanski, K. Nakazawa, K.S. Chung, S.H. Chung, D.C. Kim, I.G. Park, M.S. Park, J.S. Song, C.S. Yoon, M. Chikawa, T. Abe, T. Fujii, G. Fujioka, K. Fujiwara, H. Fukushima, T. Hara, Y. Takahashi, K. Taruma, Y. Tsuzuki, C. Yokoyama, S.D. Chang, B.G. Cheon, J.H. Cho, J.S. Kang, C.O. Kim, K.Y. Kim, T.Y. Kim, J.C. Lee, S.B. Lee, G.Y. Lim, S.W. Nam, T.S. Shin, K.S. Sim, J.K. Woo, Y. Isokane, Y. Tsuneoka, S. Aoki, A. Gauthier, K. Hoshino, H. Kitamura, M. Kobayashi, M. Miyanishi, K. Nakamura, M. Nakamura, Y. Nakamura, S. Nakanishi, K. Niu, K. Niwa, M. Nomura, H. Tajima, S. Yoshida, M. Aryal, J.M. Dunlea, S.G. Frederiksen, S. Kuramata, B.G. Lundberg, G.A. Oleynik, N.W. Reay, K. Reibel, R.A. Sidwell, N.R. Stanton, K. Moriyama, H. Shibata, G.R. Kalbfleisch, P. Skubic, J.M. Snow, S.E. Willis, O. Kusumoto, T. Okusawa, M. Teranaka, T. Tominaga, T. Yoshida, H. Yuuki, H. Okabe, J. Yokota, M. Adachi, I. Ikegami, M. Kazuno, E. Niu, H. Shibuya, S. Watanabe, Y. Sato, M. Seshimo, I. Tezuka, S.Y. Bahk, and S.K. Kim
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Silicon ,Proton ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Elementary particle ,Dissociation reaction ,Nuclear physics ,Pair production ,chemistry ,D meson ,Mass spectrum ,Charm (quantum number) - Abstract
A search for charm production in the coherent diffractive dissociation reaction pSi→XSi was carried out for the modes D0→K−π+, D0→K−π+π+π−, and D+→K−π+π+. No charm signals were observed, and the 90% confidence level upper limit for coherent charm pair production was determined to be 26 μb per silicon nucleus. The results are interpreted as an upper limit of 0.2% on the amount of intrinsic charm in the proton.
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- 1993
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