Projectile fragment emission in the fragmentation of ~(56)Fe on C,Al and CH_2 targets at 471 A MeV

The emission angle and the transverse momentum distributions of projectile fragments produced in the fragmentation of ⁵⁶Fe on CH₂, C and Al targets at 471 A MeV are measured. It is found that for the same target, the average value and width of the angular distribution decrease with an increase of the projectile fragment charge; for the same projectile fragment, the average value of the distribution increases and the width of the distribution decreases with increasing the target charge number. The transverse momentum distribution of a projectile fragment can be explained by a single Gaussian distribution and the averaged transverse momentum per nucleon decreases with the increase of the charge of projectile fragment. The cumulated squared transverse momentum distribution of a projectile fragment can be explained well by a single Rayleigh distribution. The temperature parameter of the emission source of the projectile fragment, calculated from the cumulated squared transverse momentum distribution, decreases with the increase of the size of the projectile fragment.     

Electromagnetic dissociation of 3.7 A GeV^16O in nuclear emulsion

The electromagnetic dissociation (ED) of 3.7 A GeV {}^{16}O in nuclear emulsion is investigated with high statistics. It is found that the electromagnetically dissociated cross section increases with increasing beam energy, the charge distribution of projectile fragments is the same as the results at 60 and 200 A GeV, and the production probability of projectile fragments with charge 3≤Z≤5 is less than that of the other projectile fragments. These results can be well explained by use of Weizsacker and Williams method for calculating the ED contributions. The percentile abundance of various decay modes for ED at 3.7 A GeV is close to the result at 60 and 200 A GeV, but it is different from the result at 14.6 A GeV. The ED of 3.7 A GeV is mainly caused by the giant dipole and quadrupole resonance of E1 and E2, which can be qualitatively explained by the multiplicity distribution of projectile proton in ED. The multiplicity distribution of the α fragments in ED and nuclear events have different functional forms. This difference may be a consequence of the different reaction mechanism involved.     

60 A GeV16O原子核在核乳胶中的电磁离解

对60 A GeV¹⁶O在原子核乳胶中的电磁离解现象首次进行了高统计的研究,得到电磁离解截面随束流能量的增加而增加,射弹碎片电荷分布和200 A GeV¹⁶O在 乳胶中电磁离解的电荷分布一致,但电荷为3≤Z≤5的射弹碎片的发射概率低于200 A GeV能 区,这些特点和Weiszacker和Williams的经典电磁理论模型计算结果一致.60 A GeV¹⁶ O电磁离解下各反应道出现的概率和200 A GeV能区结果基本一致,但同14.6 关键词： 电磁离解 射弹碎片 碎裂     

Momentum transfer in collisions induced by 12C beams at intermediate energies (30–84 MeV/u)

Linear momentum transfers have been determined for C induced reactions at intermediate energies (30 to 84 MeV/u). On heavy targets, the angular correlation distributions of fission fragments indicate a limitation of the transferred momentum at 2 GeV/c in this energy range. Charged-particles emitted in coincidence with a fission fragment provide information on the prefission stage. The angular distribution of low-energy protons emitted by the heavy residues from the C + Ni reaction shows the same limitation of the transferred momentum at 2 GeV/c. Comparison of the proton and α-spectra with the results from an intranuclear cascade code including sequential cooling down of the residual partners is also given.     

Projectile spectator proton production in 84Kr- emulsion interactions at 1.7 A GeV

The multiplicity distribution of projectile protons and multiplicity correlations between black particles, grey particles, shower particles, compound particles, heavily ionized track particles, projectile helium fragments and projectile spectator protons in ⁸⁴Kr-emulsion collisions at 1.7 A GeV are investigated. It is found that the projectile spectator proton multiplicity distribution becomes broader with increasing target mass. The average multiplicity of shower particles and compound particles strongly depends on the number of projectile spectator protons, but the average multiplicity of black particles, grey particles and heavily ionized track particles weakly depends on the number of projectile spectator protons. The average multiplicity of projectile helium fragments increases linearly with increasing numbers of projectile spectator protons. Finally, the multiplicity distribution of projectile spectator protons obeys a KNO type of scaling law.     

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.     

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。     

Projectile spectator proton production in 84Kr-emulsion interactions at 1.7 A GeV

The multiplicity distribution of projectile protons and multiplicity correlations between black particles, grey particles, shower particles, compound particles, heavily ionized track particles, projectile helium fragments and projectile spectator protons in <'84>Kr-emulsion collisions at 1.7 A GeV are investigated. It is found that the projectile spectator proton multiplicity distribution becomes broader with increasing target mass. The average multiplicity of shower particles and compound particles strongly depends on the number of projectile spectator protons, but the average multiplicity of black particles, grey particles and heavily ionized track particles weakly depends on the number of projectile spectator protons. The average multiplicity of projectile helium fragments increases linearly with increasing numbers of projectile spectator protons. Finally, the multiplicity distribution of projectile spectator protons obeys a KNO type of scaling law.     

Target fragmentation in proton-nucleus and16O-nucleus reactions at 60 and 200 GeV/nucleon

Target remnants withZ<3 from proton-nucleus and¹⁶O-nucleus reactions at 60 and 200 GeV/nucleon were measured in the angular range from 30° to 160° (?1.7<η<1.3) employing the Plastic Ball detector. The excitation energy of the target spectator matter in central oxygen-induced collisions is found to be high enough to allow for complete disintegration of the target nucleus into fragments withZ<3. The average longitudinal momentum transfer per proton to the target in central collisions is considerably higher in the case of¹⁶O-induced reactions (≈300 MeV/c) than in proton-induced reactions (≈130 MeV/c). The baryon rapidity distributions are roughly in agreement with one-fluid hydrodynamical calculations at 60 GeV/nucleon¹⁶O+Au but are in disagreement at 200 GeV/nucleon, indicating the higher degree of transparency at the higher bombarding energy. Both, the transverse momenta of target spectators and the entropy produced in the target fragmentation region are compared to those attained in head-on collisions of two heavy nuclei at Bevalac energies. They are found to be comparable or do even exceed the values for the participant matter at beam energies of about 1–2 GeV/nucleon.     

夸克喷注与胶子喷注角分布特性的研究

用蒙特卡洛模拟Jetset 7.4产生质心能量为91.2GeV的正负电子对撞事件. 在引入喷注的圆锥角后, 对不同味的夸克喷注和由不同味夸克发射的胶子产生的喷注的角分布特性进行了仔细研究. 结果发现, 在相同的能量下, 胶子喷注的角分布范围比夸克喷注的角分布范围要明显宽一些. 在带电粒子数、横动量相同的条件下, 胶子喷注的平均圆锥角比夸克喷注的平均圆锥角大很多. 喷注的平均圆锥角随带电多重数以及喷注的横动量的分布都呈线性正关联. 由不同味的夸克发射的胶子产生的喷注的圆锥角分布特性相同；而不同味的夸克喷注的圆锥角分布存在明显的差异.     

Inclusive photoproduction of neutral pions in the photon hemisphere at HERA

The inclusive cross section for the photoproduction of neutral pions has been measured as a function of the transverse momentum, rapidity, and Feynman x of the mesons at an average photon–proton centre-of-mass energy of 208 GeV and for photon virtualities below GeV. The measurement extends the range covered by previous charged particle measurements at HERA by two units of rapidity in the photon direction down to a value of in the centre-of-mass frame. The transverse momentum distribution is well described over the whole measured range by a power law ansatz, while an exponential fit falls below the data at transverse momentum values above 1.5 GeV/c. Good agreement with the predictions of the Monte Carlo models PYTHIA and PHOJET is found. In the context of the PYTHIA model the data are inconsistent with large intrinsic transverse momentum values in the photon. Received: 14 June 2000 / Published online: 27 November 2000     

COMPASS results on collins and sivers asymmetries for charged hadrons

The study of transverse spin and transverse momentum effects is an important part of the scientific program of COMPASS, a fixed target experiment at the CERN SPS taking data since 2002. The studies are carried on by measuring the hadrons produced in deep inelastic scattering (DIS) of 160 GeV/c muons off different targets. Among the possible asymmetries in the hadron azimuthal distributions, particularly interesting are the Collins and Sivers asymmetries which the COMPASS Collaboration has measured using transversely polarised deuteron and proton targets. Here new results for charged pions and kaons obtained from the 2010 run with a transversely polarised proton target are presented for the first time.     

On the emission of fast and slow target fragments from Kr–AgBr interactions at 0.95 GeV/A

Multiplicity distributions of secondary charged particles coming out of ⁸⁴Kr–AgBr interaction at 0.95 GeV/A have been reported. Angular distributions of fast and slow target fragments have also been studied. The sharp forward peak in the angular distribution of knocked out protons has further been analyzed in the light of intermittency and scaled factorial moment.     

Charged particle productions at 90° in the center of mass in very high energy proton-proton collisions

The transverse momentum distribution at 90° of pions, protons and antiprotons have been measured at the CERN intersecting storage rings for C.M. energies between 23.2 and 52.7 GeV. In this energy range, the pion and proton distributions are almost energy independent. The antiproton production rises by a factor of two between 23.2 and 52.7 GeV.     

Nuclear recoil velocity after interaction with high-energy protons

The mean velocity component of a nucleus in the direction of a proton beam, acquired due to its interaction with a proton, is calculated using a multiple scattering approach. Isobar formation in nucleon-nucleon collisions is taken into account. An averaging procedure is used to calculate the momentum transfer to the target nucleus in each elementary collision. The mean momentum transfer to the target nucleus is then calculated using the Glauber-Matthiae formalism. It is found that this theory reproduces the empirical energy dependence of the mean forward recoil velocities for the production of neutron-deficient fragments with mass less than half the target mass up to incident energies of 5 GeV, and correctly predicts the position of the peak around 3 GeV.     

Exclusive meson production at HERMES

The exclusive electroproduction of pseudoscalar and vector mesons was studied with the HERMES spectrometer at the DESY laboratory by scattering 27.6 GeV positron and electron beams off a transversely polarized hydrogen target.The results are compared to calculations based on generalized parton distributions,some of which are sensitive to the contribution of the total angular momentum of the quarks to the proton spin.     

Meson Production Mechanism at 70 GeV

Photoemulsion plates exposed to 70 GeV proton beam from Serpukhov Accelerator, USSR, have been analysed and part of the data has been utilized to obtain the distribution of the secondary particles in order to ascertain their production mechanism in the fireball model. This intermediate state for the production of secondaries has been identified from log tan θ plot and from the target diagram method. The parameters of the fireball were calculated by the method used by AGNESE et al. It is seen that the fireball model is favourable in 16% of the events studied. The average mass of the fireball is found to be (2.80 ± 0.1) GeV and its momentum to equal 169.62 MeV/c. The polar rotated angular distribution gives a good fit to the experimental data.     

Investigation of fragment production for fragment charge numbers between one and eight versus the degree of excitation of the fragmenting nucleus in 16Op collisions at a momentum of 3.25 GeV/c per nucleon

New experimental data on the mean-multiplicity distribution of fragments whose charge number ranges between one and eight and on the distribution of the mean kinetic energy of few-nucleon fragments (A = 1–3) are presented versus the 4-momentum transfer from the target proton to the oxygen nucleus in ¹⁶Op collisions at a momentum of 3.25 GeV/c per nucleon. These data are systematically compared with the predictions of the cascade-fragmentation-evaporation model.     

Rayleigh-like distribution of particle transverse momenta in collisions at high energies

The transverse momentum distributions of final-state particles produced in collisions at high energies are studied by using a two-component Rayleigh-like distribution. This representation is based on Liu's multisource ideal gas model which describes protons and fragments in high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. The calculated results are in good agreement with the experimental data of Au-Au, Cu-Cu, d-Au, and pp collisions at the relativistic heavy ion collider energies. The experimental particle momentum distributions of p-Be collisions at 6.4, 12.3, and 17.5 GeV/c, as well as Au-Au collisions at 1.5 AGeV are well described by a model based on a single Rayleigh-like distribution of particle transverse momenta.