Production of prompt leptons in a cluster model

Abstract

Prompt lepton production in hadron collisions is explained in a cluster production model, by assuming that the clusters have a small branching ratio for decay into leptons. The production of low mass and small momentum clusters, normalized to reproduce pionization, can explain the observed large increases of e/π ratio for decreasing p_bdT at large angles and the decreasing values of ω/π with increasing xlab near the forward direction. The present model predicts a large increase of the e/ω ratio near the forward direction as x_lab increases.