Further Evidence for Hadronic Electrons

A number of further electron experiments at high energies also favour the hadronic electron model. The slope of is the detected pion energy in the final state) near is similar in the cases of and high energy collision, and a cross section roughly constant with occurs in both (Cronin et al. 1973; Richter 1974). Furthermore, in the naive eikonal model, we have a which yields nb for , in rough agreement with experiment. Assuming that hadron yield is proportional to hadronic core area (the colliding particles will be Lorentz-contracted to discs in their centre-of-mass system), our choice of radius yields

in good agreement with the experimental data.

Yet more evidence for hadronic electrons comes from the observation of the process at with a cross section times that predicted by standard models (Altarelli et al. 1974; Jain et al. 1974) but consistent with DEHC. We note that the model proposed here does not contribute to hyperfine splitting in atomic spectra (Bég and Feinberg 1974) at present energies.

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