Decay Properties ofpπ−Systems Produced in Neutron Dissociation at 50-300 GeV/c

Abstract

We have examined the decay angular distributions of ($p{\pi }^{-}$) systems produced in the reaction $n+p\to \left(p{\pi }^{-}\right)+p$ for neutron momenta between 50 and 300 GeV/c. The production process appears to be dominated by comparable contributions from both the pion-exchange Deck mechanism and the proton-exchange Deck mechanism.