COMPARISON OF HIGH TRANSVERSE MOMENTUM PI0 PRODUCTION FROM PI-, K-, P, AND ANTI-P BEAMS.

We compare high-transverse-momentum (P/sub perpendicular/) inclusive ..pi../sup 0/ production from ..pi../sup -/, K/sup -/, p, and p beams, at 100 and 200 GeV/c, for center-of-mass (c.m.) angles ranging from 2/sup 0/ to 115/sup 0/, and P/sub perpendicular/ .. ..pi../sup 0/X)/sigma (..pi..p ..-->.. ..pi../sup 0/X) decreases with increasing P/sub perpendicular/, and changes dramatically with c.m. angle. Also, the ratios sigma (K/sup -/p ..-->.. ..pi../sup 0/X)/sigma (..pi../sup -/p ..-->.. ..pi../sup 0/X) and sigma (pp ..-->.. ..pi../sup 0/X)/sigma (pp ..-->.. /sup 0/X) are approximately constant. The measurements are consistent with a theoretical viewpoint in which constituents of the incident hadrons undergo a hard-scattering subprocess.