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Exclusive production of pion and kaon meson pairs in two photon collisions at LEP.

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  • . ALEPH Collaboration
  • A. Heister
  • S. Schael
  • R. Barate
  • R. Brunelière
  • I. De Bonis
  • D. Decamp
  • C. Goy
  • S. Jezequel
  • J. -P. Lees
  • F. Martin
  • E. Merle
  • M. -N. Minard
  • B. Pietrzyk
  • B. Trocmé
  • S. Bravo
  • M. P. Casado
  • M. Chmeissani
  • J. M. Crespo
  • E. Fernandez
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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>11/09/2003
<mark>Journal</mark>Physics Letters B
Issue number3-4
Volume569
Number of pages11
Pages (from-to)140-150
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Exclusive production of π and K meson pairs in two photon collisions is measured with ALEPH data collected between 1992 and 2000. Cross-sections are presented as a function of cosθ* and invariant mass, for |cosθ*|<0.6 and invariant masses between 2.0 and 6.0 GeV/c2 (2.25 and 4.0 GeV/c2) for pions (kaons). The shape of the distributions are found to be well described by QCD predictions but the data have a significantly higher normalization.