University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA;California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA;University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA;Fermilab, Batavia, IL 60510, USA;Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Abstract:
The hadronic production of charm particle pairs produced in the forward direction has been investigated in study of μ+μ? pairs with large missing energy (indicative of final-state neutrinos). These events result primarily from two semileptonic decays of charm-anticharm states. A comparison of the data with the prediction of the intrinsic charm diffractive model indicates that diffractive production cross sections are small (of the order of a few μb) in both 350 GeV proton and 278 GeV pion interactions.