Production of charm mesons at high transverse momentum in 515 GeV/[Formula presented] [Formula presented]-nucleon collisions

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1391-1406

  Apanasevich, L ^d   Bacigalupi, J ^a   Baker, W ^c   Begel, M ⁱ   Blusk, S ^h   Bromberg, C ^d   Chang, P ^e   Choudhary, B ^b   Chung, W H ^h   de Barbaro, L ⁱ   DeSoi, W ⁱ   Dlugosz W ^e   Dunlea, J ⁱ   Engels, E ^h   Fanourakis, G ⁱ   Ferbel, T ⁱ   Ftacnik, J ⁱ   Garelick, D ^e   Ginther, G ⁱ   Glaubman, M ^e   Gutierrez, P ^f   Hartman, K ^g   Huston, J ^d   Johnstone, C ^c   Kapoor, V ^b   Kuehler, J ^f   Lirakis, C ^e   Lobkowicz, F ⁱ   Lukens, P ^c   Mani, S ^a   Mansour, J ⁱ   Maul, A ^d   Miller, R ^d   Oh, B Y ^g   Osborne, G ⁱ   Pellett, D ^a   Prebys, E ⁱ   Roser, R ⁱ   Shepard, P ^h   Shivpuri, R ^b   Skow, D ^c   Slattery, P ⁱ   Sorrell, L ^d   Striley, D ^e   Toothacker, W ^g   Varelas, N ⁱ   Weerasundara, D ^h   Whitmore, J J ^g   Yasuda, T ^e   Yosef, C ^d   Zielinski M ⁱ   Zutshi, V ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^g PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

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EID: 0009188922     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.56.1391     Document Type: Article

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