Structures and angular distributions of slow and relativistic charged particles produced in 7Li-emulsion interactions at 3 GeV/c per projectile nucleon

Experimental results on the multiplicity distributions of various particles produced in the interactions of ⁷Li with emulsion nuclei at a momentum of 3 GeV/c per projectile nucleon are reported. A comparison with data on collisions induced by other nuclei at a nearly identical momentum per nucleon is presented in order to reveal the dependence on the projectile mass. The internal structure of ⁷Li is explored by studying the projectile fragment. The mean multiplicity of shower particles, 〈n _s〉, induced by ⁷Li is found to be less than that in the case of ⁶Li projectiles. The angular distributions of target fragments and relativistic charged secondaries are investigated. No shock-wave phenomena are observed. Forward-to-backward ratios are calculated for each case. The probability distributions for relativistic secondaries produced per unit rapidity are studied in detail, along with the rapidity densities and their dependence on the projectile and the target mass. A comparison of the angular spectra of shower particles produced in central and peripheral collisions supports the limiting-fragmentation hypothesis. The collisions in question seem to become more central with increasing shower-particle multiplicity.     

Fast helium production in interactions of 3.7 A GeV <Superscript>24</Superscript>Mg with emulsion nuclei

We have studied the properties of the relativistic helium fragments emitted from the projectile in the interactions of ²⁴Mg ions accelerated at an energy of 3.7 A GeV with emulsion nuclei. The total, partial nuclear cross-sections and production rates of helium fragmentation channels in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions and their dependence on the mass and energy of the incident projectile nucleus are investigated. The yields of multiple helium projectile fragments disrupted from the interactions of ²⁴Mg projectile nuclei with hydrogen H, light CNO and heavy AgBr groups of target emulsion nuclei are discussed and they indicate that the breakup mechanism of the projectile seems to be independent of the target mass. Limiting fragmentation behavior of fast-moving helium fragments is observed in both the projectile and target nuclei. The multiplicity distributions of helium projectile fragments emitted in the interactions of ²⁴Mg projectile nuclei with the different target nuclei of the emulsion are well described by the KNO scaling presentation. The mean multiplicities of the different charged secondary particles, normally defined shower, grey and black ( n_s, n_g and n_b) emitted in the interactions of 3.7 A GeV ²⁴Mg with the different groups of emulsion nuclei at different ranges of projectile fragments are decreasing when the number of He fragments stripped from projectile increases. These values of n_i ( i = s, g, b and h particles) in the events where the emission of fast helium fragments were accompanied by heavy fragments having Z 3 seem to be constant as the He multiplicity increases, and exhibit a behavior independent of the He multiplicity.     

Fragmentation and particle production in interactions of 10.6 GeV/N gold nuclei with hydrogen, light and heavy targets

We have investigated the interactions of 10.6 GeV/n Au in nuclear emulsion. Two methods of separating interactions into those with hydrogen, light (C,N,O) and heavy (Ag,Br) target nuclei were used, giving almost identical results, which strengthened our confidence in the correctness of these methods. We also measured the angular distributions of singly and multiply charged relativistic particles emitted from the interaction vertices and the charges of the multiply charged projectile fragments. The fragmentation of the projectile Au nuclei and of the target nuclei were analyzed. The multiparticle production was studied as a function of the mass of the target nucleus. The multiplicity and the pseudorapidity distributions of relativistic singly charged particles were compared with the predictions of the RQMD Model. Received: 22 April 1998 / Published online: 8 September 1998     

Two source emission behavior of projectile fragments alpha in 84Kr interactions at around 1 GeV per nucleon

The emission of projectile fragments alpha has been studied in ⁸⁴Kr interactions with nuclei of the nuclear emulsion detector composition at relativistic energy below 2 GeV per nucleon. The angular distribution of projectile fragments alpha in terms of transverse momentum could not be explained by a straight and clean-cut collision geometry hypothesis of Participant — Spectator (PS) Model. Therefore, it is assumed that projectile fragments alpha were produced from two separate sources that belong to the projectile spectator region differing drastically in their temperatures. It has been clearly observed that the emission of projectile fragments alpha are from two different sources. The contribution of projectile fragments alpha from contact layer or hot source is a few percent of the total emission of projectile fragments alphas. Most of the projectile fragments alphas are emitted from the cold source.     

Study of emission characteristics of the projectile fragments produced in the interaction of 84Kr36 with nuclear emulsion detector at 1 GeV

This article is focused on the characteristics of the projectile fragments of charge 1 ≤ Z ≤ 10 produced in the interaction of the ⁸⁴Kr₃₆ with nuclear emulsion detector at 1 GeV per nucleon. We have studied the average charge distribution and multiplicity distribution of the projectile fragments having charge 1 ≤ Z ≤ 10. We have also studied the emission behavior of various projectile fragments produced from the interaction with different target groups of nuclear emulsion detector. From this study we have observed that the emission of projectile fragments is strongly dependent on the interaction with different type of the target groups of nuclear emulsion detector as well as on the mass of the projectile beam. The results are compared with other experimental observations carried out at relativistic energy and found to be consistent.     

Multiplicity of secondary particles and fragmentation in nuclear interactions of22Ne and32S nuclei with emulsion at (4.1–4.5)A GeV/c

The interactions of 4.1AGeV/c ²²Ne and 4.5AGeV/c ³²S nuclei with emulsion have been studied and the dependence of the average multiplicities of the emitted secondary charged particles and the interacting projectile nucleons on the impact parameters have been investigated. The behavior of the Koba-Neilsen-Olesen (KNO) scaling formula of the multiplicity distributions produced due to the interactions of²²Ne and³²S at the energies mentioned above is satisfied by all target protons. The multiplicity distributions of the emitted⁴He fragments and the fragmentation cross-section relative to the inelastic cross-section have been investigated and give a⁴He-fragments yield which is always ten times greater than the yield of any other fragments. The dependence of the normalized mean multiplicity and the reduced multiplicity on the mass of the projectile and target nucleus can be described by a power law.     

500 AMeV 56Fe诱发乳胶核反应弹核碎裂研究

通过利用日本放射线医学综合研究所( NIRS ) 重离子医用加速器( HIMAC) 产生的束流照射国产的核-4型原子核乳胶,对500 AMeV 56Fe诱发乳胶核反应粒子产生进行了研究。讨论了500 AMeV 56Fe诱发乳胶核反应弹核碎片的多重数分布,并与其他结果进行了比较。结果表明,弹核碎片平均多重数随靶核质量的增加而增加,与入射能量无关。A stack of domestic N-4 nuclear emulsion was exposed to 56Fe ions at 500 AMeV at the HIMAC of NIRS. Particle production was investigated in 56Fe-Em interactions. The multiplicity distribution of projectile fragments was given in this paper and compared with other experimental results of heavy ion induced nuclear reactions in nuclear emulsion. The results show that the multiplicity of projectile fragments increase with the increasing target mass, and thereis no dependence on the projectile energy.     

Study of number of black prongs in two generations of nuclear interactions in photoemulsion irradiated by 72 GeV Ne

This work is a study of new aspects in relativistic nucleus–nucleus interactions using the nuclear emulsion technique and it is aimed at development of a method of search of these interactions. Layers of nuclear photographic emulsion type-BR2 with sizes were irradiated with 72 GeV ²²Ne beam parallel to emulsion surface. The scanning length was 110 mm. The new idea is the counting of black prongs in nuclear–nuclear interactions due to primary projectile ²²Ne ions and due to their α- and Z3 projectile fragments, i.e. their (Z2)-secondary fragments. The ratio of their black prong multiplicity distributions is measured. Black prongs are low-energy Z=1 particles in case of protons with energies below 30 MeV emitted from the residual nuclei of these high-energy interactions. Two divisions of events were used. The first one was over more peripheral events, more central and exceedingly central collisions. The second division was over collisions creating fragments Z2 and without their creation. The ratios between numbers of events in such different subsets, as well the ratios between of different mean values of N_b multiplicities averaged inside these subsets were studied. These results are discussed, also in the context of other thick target experiment, studied with radiochemistry or neutron counting techniques. In addition, different versions of the mean free nuclear ranges of Ne-ions and their heavy secondary fragments have been measured and calculated. We have scheduled the further strategy of search of new phenomena in similar multiplicity distributions at greater statistics of future experiments.     

Production of Helium Projectile Fragments in 16O-Emulsion Collisions at 60 A GeV

Production of helium projectile fragments in ¹⁶O-emulsion interactions at 60 A GeV is investigated. The total charge changing and partial production cross-sections are measured experimentally on the basis of helium multiplicity. The multiplicity distribution of helium projectile fragments obeys a KNO scaling. In the peripheral collision of ¹⁶O at 60 A GeV in nuclear emulsion, the production of target fragments depends on the multiplicity of helium projectile fragments linearly. The averge multiplicity of target fragments decreases with the increasing of the number of helium projectile fragments which can be well expliained by the model of participant-spectator (the nuclear geometric model) of nucleus-nucleus interactions.     

Characteristics of He-nucleus interactions at relativistic energy

From the peripheral collisions of²⁸Si projectile at 14.5 A GeV in nuclear emulsion, emerged⁴He nuclei among the projectile fragments, are followed for their interactions. Multiplicity and pseudorapidity distributions of the produced particles emanating from 366 inelastic⁴He induced emulsion reactions are compared with those of²⁸Si at 14.5A GeV,⁴He at 140A GeV and proton at 800 GeV beams. Standard deviation of the Gaussian fittings to the pseudorapidity distributions for different values of average shower particle multiplicities represents an approximate measure of the impact parameter. Second moments of the multiplicity distributions of the shower tracks can be parameterized in terms of a universal polynomial dependence. Results agree quite well with the predictions of the multistring model VENUS.     

Systematic study of multiparticle production in nucleus–nucleus interactions at 14.6 A GeV

An experimental analysis of 855 events induced by 14.6 A GeV ²⁸Si in nuclear emulsion is presented. Mean multiplicities of charged secondary particles produced in the nuclear interactions are studied and compared with the results from the other experiments for the same projectile at 3.7 A GeV as well as data for proton at similar energy (14 GeV). An analysis of pseudorapidity densities of target fragments (black and grey particles) is also performed. The behaviour of the KNO scaling law of the multiplicity distribution for shower particles has been examined. In order to accumulate knowledge about the intermittent behaviour of shower particles, the scaled factorial moments (SFMs) are computed in η-space and ?-space for a set of data in the ²⁸Si–AgBr events. Furthermore, validity of limiting fragmentation of shower particles produced in central collision events induced by ²⁸Si-emulsion interactions has been tested. A crude estimation for the energy density of the nuclear matter formed in the central collision events at our energy has been examined.     

Features of the total disintegration events of heavyemulsion targets caused by 4.5A GeV/c16O

Total disintegration events produced by 4.5\,A GeV/c $^{16}$O--AgBr interactions are analysed to investigate the characteristics of secondary charged particles produced in such collisions. The multiplicity distributions of grey, black, and relativistic charged particles can be well represented by Gaussian distribution. The average multiplicity of grey particles is found to increase with the mass of projectile increasing, while that of black particles is found to decrease with the mass of projectile increasing. This result is in good agreement with the prediction of fireball model. Finally, the linear dependence between grey and black particles is observed, but there is no distinct dependence between the production of relativistic charged particles and the target excitation.     

Interactions of 10.6 GeV/nucleon gold nuclei in nuclear emulsion

Stacks of nuclear emulsion were exposed at the Brookhaven AGS to a 10.6 GeV/n beam of gold nuclei in the BNL 868 experiment. A preliminary analysis of the main features of the interactions of these nuclei is reported here and compared with those observed previously at lower energies,E<1 GeV/n. The multiplicity and pseudo-rapidity distributions of the singly charged particles emitted both in central and in minimum bias samples of interactions have been analyzed in order to look for any non random effects indicative of the nuclear state during the interactions. The fragmentation characteristics of the gold projectiles appear to be different at 10.6 GeV/n from those at ≦1 GeV/n incident energy. Fission of the gold projectiles, which was relatively frequent at low energy, is almost entirely suppressed. Some of alpha particles from the projectile are emitted with very large transverse momenta. In gold-emulsion interactions the residual target nuclei are significantly smaller than in oxygen and sulfur interactions in emulsion.

     

Helium production from 84Kr-- and 197Au--emulsion interactions at high energies

The properties of the relativistic helium fragments produced in interactions of 84 Kr at 1.8 A GeV and 197 Au at 10.7 A GeV in emulsion are investigated. The experimental results are compared with those obtained from various projectiles with emulsion collisions at different energies. It is found that the multiplicity distribution of helium projectile fragments (HPFs) is well described by the Koba-Nielsen-Olesen (KNO) scaling presentation. The second Mueller moment f 2 of the HPF multiplicity distribution is independent of the projectile energy for the same projectile, but it is dependent on the projectile mass number. The value of f 2 increases with the increase of projectile mass number A p . The negative value of f 2 , when A p < 69, means that the emission of HPFs is anticorrelated, but positive value of f 2 , when A p > 69, refers to that the emission of HPFs is correlated. The non-zero f 2 moment in this experiment implies the strong correlation existing between the HPFs.     

Features on Very Peripheral Collisions of ~(16)O-Em at 3.7 A GeV

From 1540 inelastic interactions of 3.7 A GeV~(16)O projectile with emulsion nuclei, we select samples of 87 and61 events carefully due to interactions of neutron(n) and singly charged particles(Z = 1), respectively. New results concerning the topology of such events are investigated. The average multiplicities of secondary relativistic particles that appear as shower tracks for n and Z = 1 stay more or less constant when compared with analogous data on p-Em at similar energy. The multiplicity distributions and the average values of the various secondary charged particles are studied and compared with the corresponding predictions by the cascade evaporation model.The results assume that the n or Z = 1 from~(16)O collide peripherally with an emulsion target and are considered as an expansion to the N-N collisions.     

Multiplicity characteristics in relativistic 24Mg-nucleus collisions

This work is concerned with the analyses of the shower and gray particle production in 4.5 A GeV/c ²⁴Mg collision with emulsion nuclei. The highest particle production occurs in the region of the low impact parameters. While the multiplicity of the shower particles emitted in the forward direction depends on the projectile mass number and energy, the multiplicity of the backward ones shows a limiting behaviour. The source of the emission of the forward shower particles is completely different from that of the backward ones. The target fragments are produced in a thermalized system of emission.     

Central collisions of24Mg nuclei with heavy emulsion group of nuclei (Br,Ag) at 4.5 AGeV/c momentum

Central collisions of²⁴Mg nuclei with the heavy (AgBr) group of emulsion nuclei are selected and analysed according to several selecting criteria. Theoretical calculations concerning cross sections for central events, average number of interacting protons from both projectile and target nuclei, multiplicity distributions of shower particles and dispersions, all based on the Glauber model, are performed to evaluate various criteria to select central events. The selection criterion based on the high multiplicity of total charged particles provides satisfactory agreement with the theoretical calculations.     

60AGeV 16 O诱发乳胶核反应α射弹碎片发射研究

对60AGeV^16O诱发乳胶核反应射弹α碎片的发射进行了研究，得到α射弹碎片多重数分布服从KNO标度无关性。在边缘作用下，α射弹碎片的产生与靶核碎片的产生存在线性关联，靶核碎片平均多重数随α射弹碎片数的增加线性减小，它可以很好地利用核作用几何模型来解释。     

Schottky mass spectrometry at the heavy ion storage ring ESR

Schottky mass spectrometry is a novel method of precision nuclear mass spectrometry based on the measurement of the revolution frequencies of cooled ions in storage rings performed by non-destructive frequency analysis of the beam noise, the well-established Schottky diagnosis technique. The method was applied for the first time at the Experimental Storage Ring ESR at GSI observing electron cooled highly charged ions up to bare nuclei at relativistic energies around several hundred MeV/u. To demonstrate the performance and feasibility of the method at the ESR, experimental tests have been carried out using beams of nuclear fragments produced in the ring itself by the interaction of different primary beams with the internal gas jet target. Futhermore, first Schottky mass measurements of secondary nuclear beams produced by projectile fragmentation of Au and Bi primary beams in a thick Be-target were carried out in order to determine the masses for numerous heavy neutron deficient nuclei which had not been measured before. Relative accuracies for the measured mass values in the order of 1×10^–6 and below can be achieved. The method is briefly discussed and some early results are presented.