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Fast helium nuclei in interactions induced by very heavy nuclei

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Fast helium nuclei emitted in interactions between heavy cosmic ray nuclei (12≦Z≦26) and photoemulsion nuclei at energies >1 GeV/nucleon have been studied. Comparisons with interactions where the incident particles are protons, pions or light nuclei reveal some characteristic features of nucleus-nucleus interactions. The frequency of fast target helium nuclei is much larger and the high energy tail of the energy spectrum of these helium nuclei is more pronounced in nucleus-nucleus interactions than in proton-nucleus and pion-nucleus interactions. The number of helium nuclei emitted depends on the size and disintegration of the interacting nuclei. In order to explain our experimental data several possible production mechanisms have to be considered. Some characteristics of the emission of multiply-charged projectile fragments have-also been studied.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden

    B. Jakobsson, R. Kullberg & I. Otterlund

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The authors wish to express their thanks to the U.S.Office of Naval Research for the exposure of the emulsion stacks. Thanks are also due to Miss B. Lindkvist for the processing of the emulsions. We are further grateful to Drs. R. Andersson, L. Larsson and O. Mathiesen who have put the photometric equipment and data about emulsion stack I at our disposal. The research reported in this paper has been sponsored by the Swedish Research Council, which is gratefully acknowledged.

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Jakobsson, B., Kullberg, R. & Otterlund, I. Fast helium nuclei in interactions induced by very heavy nuclei. Z. Physik 268, 1–9 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01670055

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