C. Adloff et al., PHOTOPRODUCTION OF K-0 AND LAMBDA AT HERA AND A COMPARISON WITH DEEP-INELASTIC SCATTERING, Zeitschrift fur Physik. C, Particles and fields, 76(2), 1997, pp. 213-221
Inclusive K-0 and Lambda photoproduction has been investigated at HERA
with the I-Il detector at an average photon-proton center of mass ene
rgy of 200 GeV in the transverse momentum range 0.5 < p(t) < 5 GeV. Th
e production rates as a function of p(t) and center of mass rapidity a
re compared to those obtained in deep inelastic scattering at [Q(2)] =
23 GeV2. A similar comparison is made of the. rapidity spectra of cha
rged particles. The rate of strangeness pho toproduction is compared w
ith <p(p)over bar> measurements. The observations are also compared wi
th next-to-leading order QCD calculations and the predictions of a Mon
te Carlo model.