ASYMMETRY OF pi- MESON EMISSION IN NUCLEUS-NUCLEUS COLLISIONS AS A MEASURE OF THE TARGET TO PROJECTILE RATIO OF THE NUMBERS OF INTERACTING NUCLEONS

Bartke, J. ; Ivanovskaya, I.A. ; Mehdiyev, Rashid R. ; et al.
Z.Phys.C 29 (1985) 9, 1985.
Inspire Record 203310 DOI 10.17182/hepdata.16050

Experimental data on the forward-backward asymmetry of π- emission in (d,4He,12C)181Ta interactions atp/A=4.2 GeV/c are presented. The absolute value of the asymmetry coefficient of the inclusive π- production in the nucleon-nucleonCMS decreases asAp−0.35 with increasing atomic mass of projectile nucleus. A method of obtaining the target-to-projectile ratio of the numbers of participant nucleonsNt/Np through measuring the velocity of the symmetric pion emission system is proposed. It has been found that Nt/Np∼Ap−0.73.

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IN THE NUCLEON-NUCLEON CENTRE-OF-MASS SYSTEM.

IN THE NUCLEON-NUCLEON CENTRE-OF-MASS SYSTEM.

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