S. Golovkin et al., PRODUCTION OF PI(0),ETA-0, AND OMEGA(0) MESONS IN THE DEEP-FRAGMENTATION REGION BY 70-GEV PROTONS, Physics of atomic nuclei, 59(9), 1996, pp. 1640-1642
Quasiexclusive reactions of neutral-meson production are studied in ex
periments at the SPHINX facility in the proton beam of the MEP acceler
ator (E(p) = 70 GeV). The cross sections and the parameters of the dif
ferential cross sections for pi(0), omega, and eta production in pN in
teractions in the deep-fragmentation region (x(F) > 0.79-0.86) are pre
sented. The results of this experiment show that these reactions may b
e of paramount importance in searches for and study of exotic mesons.