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Atomic mass dependence of hadron production in semi-inclusive deep inelastic lepton-nucleus scattering

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-10-23 v1

Abstract

Hadron production in lepton-nucleus deep inelastic scattering is studied in a quark energy loss model. The leading-order computations for hadron multiplicity ratios are presented and compared with the selected HERMES pions production data with the quark hadronization occurring outside the nucleus by means of the hadron formation time. It is found that the obtained energy loss per unit length is 0.440±0.0130.440 \pm 0.013 GeV/fm for an outgoing quark by the global fit. It is confirmed that the atomic mass number dependence of hadron attenuation is theoretically and experimentally in good agreement with the A2/3A^{2/3} power law for quark hadronization occurring outside the nucleus.

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@article{arxiv.1310.5692,
  title  = {Atomic mass dependence of hadron production in semi-inclusive deep inelastic lepton-nucleus scattering},
  author = {Li-Hua Song and Na Liu and Chun-Gui Duan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.5692},
  year   = {2013}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1310.5285