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Simple parameterization of nuclear attenuation data

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-12-18 v1

Abstract

Based on the nuclear attenuation data obtained by the HERMES experiment on nitrogen and krypton nuclei, it is shown that the nuclear attenuation RMhR_M^{h} can be parametrised in a form of a linear polynomial P1=a11P_1=a_{11} + τa12\tau a_{12}, where τ\tau is the formation time, which depends on the energy of the virtual photon ν\nu and fraction of that energy zz carried by the final hadron. Three widely known parameterizations for τ\tau were used for the performed fit. The fit parameters a11a_{11} and a12a_{12} do not depend on ν\nu and zz.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0703124,
  title  = {Simple parameterization of nuclear attenuation data},
  author = {N. Akopov and L. Grigoryan and Z. Akopov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0703124},
  year   = {2008}
}