Production of charged pions, kaons and protons in e+e- annihilations into hadrons at sqrt{s} = 10.54 GeV
J. P. Lees
(1)
,
V. Poireau
(1)
,
V. Tisserand
(1)
,
N. Arnaud
(2)
,
M. Davier
(2)
,
D. Derkach
(2)
,
G. Grosdidier
(2)
,
F. Le Diberder
(2)
,
A.M. Lutz
(2)
,
B. Malaescu
(2)
,
P. Roudeau
(2)
,
M.H. Schune
(2)
,
A. Stocchi
(2)
,
G. Wormser
(2)
,
D. Bernard
(3)
,
M. Verderi
(3)
,
S. Emery
(4)
,
G. Hamel de Monchenault
(4)
,
G. Vasseur
(4)
,
Ch. Yèche
(4)
,
S. Akar
(5)
,
E. Ben-Haim
(5)
,
M. Bomben
(5)
,
G.R. Bonneaud
(5)
,
H. Briand
(5)
,
G. Calderini
(5)
,
J. Chauvau
(5)
,
O. Hamon
(5)
,
Ph. Leruste
(5)
,
G. Marchiori
(5)
,
J. Ocariz
(5)
,
S. Sitt
(5)
N. Arnaud
- Function : Author
- PersonId : 16841
- IdHAL : nicolas-arnaud
- ORCID : 0000-0001-6589-8673
G. Vasseur
- Function : Author
- PersonId : 745439
- IdHAL : georges-vasseur
G. Calderini
- Function : Author
- PersonId : 10608
- IdHAL : giovanni-calderini
- ORCID : 0000-0002-9495-9145
- IdRef : 172243211
G. Marchiori
- Function : Author
- PersonId : 741274
- IdHAL : giovanni-marchiori
- ORCID : 0000-0003-2655-7643
- IdRef : 180997203
Abstract
Inclusive production cross sections of $\pi^\pm$, $K^\pm$ and $p\bar{p}$ in $e^+e^-$ annihilations are measured at a center-of-mass energy of 10.54 GeV, using a relatively small sample of very high quality data from the BaBar experiment at the PEP-II $B$-factory at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The drift chamber and Cherenkov detector provide clean samples of identified $\pi^\pm$, $K^\pm$ and $p\bar{p}$ over a wide range of momenta. Since the center-of-mass energy is below the threshold to produce a $B\bar{B}$ pair, with $B$ a bottom-quark meson, these data represent a pure $e^+e^- \rightarrow q\bar{q}$ sample with four quark flavors, and are used to test QCD predictions and hadronization models. Combined with measurements at other energies, in particular at the $Z^0$ resonance, they also provide precise constraints on the scaling properties of the hadronization process over a wide energy range.