The abundances of light nuclei probe the later stages of the evolution of a system formed in a relativistic heavy-ion collision. After the system has cooled and expanded, nucleons in close proximity and moving with small relative momenta coalesce to form nuclei. Light nuclei production enables the study of several topics, including the mechanism of composite particle production, freeze-out temperature, size of the interaction region, and entropy of the system. NA44 is the only relativistic heavy-ion experiment to have both deuteron and antideuteron results in both pA and AA collisions and the first CERN experiment to study the physics topics addressed by d and d production.
PRELIMINARY DATA.
Inclusive spectra of protons emitted in the interaction of 12 C-projectiles at an energy of 3.6 GeV/nucleon and C, Cu, Sn and Pb target nuclei were measured. The analysis of the experimental data suggests that in all these interactions the main contribution to proton cross sections in the investigated kinematic region is due to emission from a moving source with a rapidity which differs greatly from the target nucleus rapidity, y t , as well as from that of the effective fireball. The properties of this source such as the excitation energy depend only slightly on the combination of the colliding nuclei.
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IN 'YN' OF THIS TABLE 'A' MEANS CHEMICAL WEIGHT OF TANTALUM NUCLEUS.
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FOR PARTICLES WITH ABSORPTION CROSS SECTION OF 1.E-23 CM**2 NAME EXOTIC IS USED.