A measurement of inclusive π0 production at large pT from p-p collisions at the CERN ISR

Abstract The inclusive cross section for larger p T π 0 production near 90° in p-p collisions at the CERN ISR is presented for centre-of-mass energies 30.7, 53.1 and 62.4 GeV. The data are inconsistent with scaling of the form p T − n F ( x T ), with constant n or with n allowed to depend on x T = 2p T / s . For s = 53.1 and 62.4 GeV , the value of n found for 3.5 p T c is n = 8.0 ± 0.5, in agreement with previous experiments. However, for 7.5 p T c the value becomes n = 5.1 ± 0.4.