Abstract
On the basis of a parton model studied earlier we consider the production process of large-mass lepton pairs from hadron-hadron inelastic collisions in the limiting region, , finite, and being the squared invariant masses of the lepton pair and the two initial hadrons, respectively. General scaling properties and connections with deep inelastic electron scattering are discussed. In particular, a rapidly decreasing cross section as is predicted as a consequence of the observed rapid falloff of the inelastic scattering structure function near threshold.
- Received 25 May 1970
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.25.316
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