Experimental observation of a copious yield of electrons with small transverse momenta in pp collisions at high energies
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a University of California at Riverside, Riverside, Cal., USA
b CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
c Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., USA
d Sektion Physik der Universität, Munich, Germany
e Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., USA
Abstract:
Inclusive electron and positron emission have been observed for θcm = 30° and S = 2800 GeV2 at the CERN Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR). Over the transverse momentum interval 0.2 GeV/c < pT < 1.5 GeV/c, electrons and positrons, which are equal in number within the experimental accuracies, appear to grow with respect to other particles (pions) approximately like 1/pT. We are unable to explain their number and pT-dependence in terms of “conventional” mechanisms.