Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
Abstract:
The intranuclear cascade for relativistic nuclear collisions is analyzed in terms of “clusters” consisting of groups of nucleons which are dynamically linked to each other by violent interactions. The formation cross sections for the different cluster types as well as their intrinsic dynamics are studied and compared with the predictions of the linear cascade model (“rows-on-rows”).