Observation of color-transparency in diffractive dissociation of pions
Abstract
We have studied the diffractive dissociation into di-jets of 500 GeV/c pions scattering coherently from carbon and platinum targets. Extrapolating to asymptotically high energies (where tmin approaches 0) we find that when the per-nucleus cross-section for this process is parameterized as σ = σ0 Aα, α has values near 1.6, the exact result depending on jet transverse momentum. These values are in agreement with those predicted by theoretical calculations of color-transparency.
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