MESON PRODUCTION IN THE INTERACTIONS OF 26.7 GEV/C PROTONS WITH EMULSION NUCLEI

Abstract

A sample of 133 interactions in nuclear emulsions initiated by 26.7 Gev/c protons was examined. It was found possible to separate the events fairly well into two groups, one in which almost all of the shower particles were emitted in a single nucleon-nucleon collision in a target nucleus, the other (cerca 20%) in which the shower particles were produced in two or more successive collisions in a target nucleus. Analysis of the effective target mass distribution of the events and the (log cot theta) distribution, where theta is the laboratory emission angle of a shower particle, supported the above interpretation and indicated that an appreciable fraction of the events in the first group might be attributed to peripheral nucleon-nucleon collisions. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0277387

Entities

People

  • Y.k. Lim

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Collisions
  • Emission
  • Emulsions
  • Particles
  • Production

Fields of Study

  • Physics

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