On the energy spectrum of protons produced in 16Op collisions at a momentum of 3.25 GeV/c per nucleon

New experimental data concerning the mechanisms of the production of protons originating as fragments from oxygen-nucleus interactions in a hydrogen bubble chamber at high energies are presented. It is shown that anomalies observed in the energy spectrum of protons at kinetic energies in the range T = 70–90 MeV are associated with the absorption of slow pions by a quasideuteron nucleon pair.