Hadron formation in semi-inclusive deep inelastic lepton-nucleus scattering

Abstract

Hadron production in lepton-nucleus deep inelastic scattering is studied in a model including quark energy loss and nuclear absorption. The leading-order computations for hadron multiplicity ratios are presented and compared with the selected HERMES experimental data with the quark hadronization occurring inside the nucleus by means of the hadron formation time. It is shown that with increase of the energy fraction carried by the hadron, the nuclear suppression on hadron multiplicity ratio from nuclear absorption gets bigger. It is found that when hadronization occurs inside the nucleus, the nuclear absorption is the dominant mechanism causing a reduction of the hadron yield. The atomic mass dependence of hadron attenuation for quark hadronization starting inside the nucleus is confirmed theoretically and experimentally to be proportional to $A^{1/3}$.

References in corpus (5)

• Determination of fragmentation functions and their uncertainties
• Atomic Mass Dependence of Hadron Production in Deep Inelastic Scattering on Nuclei
• Quark energy loss in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering of leptons on nuclei
• Systematic analysis of the incoming quark energy loss in cold nuclear matter
• Measurement of the nuclear multiplicity ratio for $K_s^0$ hadronization at CLAS

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