Inclusive neutral kaon and lambda production in 69 GeV pp interactions

Abstract From a study of 180 neutral vees in the hydrogen bubble chamber Mirabell, we have obtained respectively, for the cross sections of the inclusive reactions pp → K 0 X and pp → λ X, 8.4 ± 1.1 and 3.6 ± 0.5 mb. Data presented for the neutral kaons and λ in terms of the invariant cross sections F ( x , p ⊥ , s ) show, when compared with lower and higher energy results, that scaling is approximately valid at our energy for K o and λ production.