At the projectile-fragment separator FRS of GSI, relativistic secondary beams of about 520 MeV/nucleon were produced by fragmentation of a primary beam of58Ni at 650 MeV/nucleon in a beryllium target. By means of aΔE—Bρ—TOF measurement, the fragments have been identified and their charge-changing probabilities in targets of CH2, C, Al, and Pb have been determined. We describe the results for the total charge-changing cross sections in this first paper, whereas a second article deals with the partial charge-changing cross sections. At the drip line, the measured charge-changing cross sections exhaust close to 100% of the total interaction cross sections as calculated with semiempirical models. The measurements at the proton drip line with low-Z targets indicate that only a very small increase of the cross sections may be observed, whereas the measurements with a lead target show that no significant increase of the total charge-changing cross sections is present which would be a hint for low-lying dipole strength. Our experimental data are compared to Glauber-type calculations.
Nucleus is C H2.
Nucleus is C H2.
Nucleus is C H2.
2550 interactions of 12 C in emulsion at 4.5 A GeV / c have been used to study the properties of projectile fragments. The multiplicity and projected angular distributions of projectile fragments in different target groups have been studied. The production cross section of the reaction in which projectile 12 C breaks up into two Z = 3 fragments is found to be 6.6 × 10 −3 of the total inelastic cross section. The projected angular distributions of fragments exhibit features of limiting fragmentation. Statistically significant azimuthal correlations among fragments in the azimuthal plane indicates that the fragmenting nucleus gets a transverse momentum during the collision.
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NUCLEUS IS CNO.
NUCLEUS IS AGBR.
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