The characteristics of particles emitted in energetic nucleus-nucleus interactionsThe analysis of the interactions of heavy cosmic ray nuclei in nuclear emulsion exposed over Texas is continued, with 500 interactions of nuclei of E greater than 1.5 GeV/nucleon added. In this paper the experimental data correlating meson production with fragmentation of the projectile and target nuclei are given. These data, combined with earlier results, are also used to reexamine the problem of the mean free path of secondary fragments. Using the same techniques of analysis used for the accelerator ions, evidence is found for anomalously short mean free paths of secondary fragments in the first centimeter after production.
Document ID
19820047006
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Proceedings
Authors
Barber, H. B. (Minnesota Univ. Minneapolis, MN, United States)
Freier, P. S. (Minnesota Univ. Minneapolis, MN, United States)
Waddington, C. J. (Minnesota, University Minneapolis, MN, United States)