Correlations between large transverse momentum pi /sup 0/ mesons and charged particles at the CERN ISR

A study of the charged particles emitted together with a large transverse momentum pi /sup 0/ was made at the CERN ISR at a centre- of-mass energy square root s=52.7 GeV. The pi /sup 0/ mesons and the charged particles were observed in two detectors, each centred at theta /sub cm/=90/sup 0/ and each covering a laboratory solid angle of 0.59 sr for pi /sup 0/'s and 1.1 sr for charged particles. The multiplicity of charged particles, observed in the same and in the opposite hemisphere as the pi /sup 0/, was found to be larger than the average multiplicity for inelastic interactions. Some rapidity and azimuthal correlations were observed. (14 refs)